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Typological variation across Sinitic languages [PDF]
, 2019 Decades of works dedicated to the description of (previously) lesser-known Sinitic languages have effectively dispelled the common myth that these languages share a single “universal Chinese grammar”.
Pui Yiu Szeto
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SAY-COMPLEMENTIZERS IN SINITIC LANGUAGES
, 2017 International audienceI treat the pathway of grammaticalization which leads to reanalysis of SAY verbs as the category of the complementizer in the case of Sinitic languages, casting an eye over the wider areal and crosslinguistic perspective. Each stage
Chappell, Hilary
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The Odae chinŏn (Five Great Mantras) and Dhāraṇī Collections in Premodern Korea
Religions, 2022 The Five Great Mantras (Odae chinŏn) is one of the most widely circulated collections of Buddhist dhāraṇīs in premodern Korea, having been published or existing in several variant editions during the Chosŏn period (1392–1910).
Richard D. McBride
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More on areal distinctions in Sinitic: focus on Northern China [PDF]
Chinese ‘dialects’ are characterised by a considerable degree of diversity, and some major differences within Sinitic follow areal patterns, in which contact is often claimed to play a crucial role.
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco
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Refining the typological profile of Sinitic
International audienceREFINING THE TYPOLOGICAL PROFILE OF SINITICHilary ChappellLinguistics and Modern Languages Department, CUHK &EHESS-CRLAO, ParisSinitic languages comprize ten main branches for which there is little intercomprehensibility. If it were
Chappell, Hilary
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From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a
Chu-Ren Huang +3 more
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On Structural Particles in Sinitic Languages: Typology and Diachrony
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022 In the Chinese linguistic tradition, the term ‘structural particle(s)’ (jiégòu zhùcí 结构助词) is used to refer to functional elements that mainly act as markers of adnominal modification, nominalisation, adverbial modification and in the so-called verb ...
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco
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, 2023 The assumptions of LFG have been applied to the research on a number of grammatical phenomena in Chinese languages. In this chapter, we present an overviewof some of the studies devoted to investigating the syntactic patterns of two varieties of Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese.
Olivia S.-C. Lam +3 more
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An Ethnolinguistic Remark on the fēiyī 飛衣
Bhasha, 2023 This paper inquires the relationship between two Trans-Himalayan languages, namely Lohorung (Eastern Kiranti) and Old Chinese (Sinitic) by comparing their ‘soul’-related vocabulary.
Hürlimann, Simon
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Typological variation across Sinitic languages : contact and convergence
, 2019 Decades of works dedicated to the description of (previously) lesser-known Sinitic languages have effectively dispelled the common myth that these languages share a single “universal Chinese grammar”.
Szeto, Pui Yiu, 司徒沛嶢
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