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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Philosophy of Life, Relational Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesAsian Studies, 2021
This paper investigates the relation between different models of ethics and their impact upon crises solution strategies. Because COVID-19 is a global-scale crisis, it has to be solved on the global level.
Jana S. Rošker
doaj   +1 more source

Making vertebrate fossil radiocarbon dates more useful for global scientific research

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 1309-1335, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Radiocarbon dating of bones is essential for reconstructing timelines of species' occurrences, domestication, extinction, migrations, and interactions with Quaternary environments. Many studies compile these chronologies at continental to global scales by aggregating radiocarbon dates from various sources, often balancing data quantity and ...
Salvador Herrando‐Pérez   +1 more
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Current and Future Pathotyping Platforms for Plasmodiophora brassicae in Canada

open access: yesPlants, 2021
Clubroot, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae, is one of the most detrimental threats to crucifers worldwide and has emerged as an important disease of canola (Brassica napus) in Canada.
Heather H. Tso   +2 more
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How the Turtle Lost its Shell: Sino-Tibetan Divination Manuals and Cultural Translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Poupard, Duncan J
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Chinese dialects, revolutionary war & economic performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this paper, we explore the effects of dialectal diversity on economic performance by drawing evidence from Chinese prefecture-level cities. Our dataset is a panel of 5-year average data over the period from 2001 to 2015 including 274 cities.
Grigoriadis, Theocharis, Zhu, Junbing
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Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera

open access: yesMusic Theory Online, 2023
This article grapples with the question: how do huangmei opera and kua-a opera listeners experience formal coherence? Both opera traditions abound with changing phrase lengths that subvert the anticipatory listening strategies familiar to Anglo-American theorists.
openaire   +1 more source

Sociolinguistic variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 218-236, March-June 2025.
Abstract Colloquial Singapore English (CSE), also known as ‘Singlish’, features a wide range of sentence‐final particles (SFP) influenced by local languages such as Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin and Malay. This study focuses on the SFP sia, a relatively new and less‐explored particle with Malay roots. We examine sia and its variants (sia, sial, siak and
Mohamed Hafiz   +4 more
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Tonal Phonotactics in Southern Min

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 431-455, December 2024.
Abstract This paper is the first to explore tonal phonotactics in the world's natural languages. Zhangzhou Southern Min is theoretically assumed to have 7320 possible syllables but more than 71% of them are not empirically attested. Each lexical tone is logically possible to generate 915 syllables; however, the attested number only ranges from 98 ...
Yishan Huang
wiley   +1 more source

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