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Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 17, 23 March 2026.This study clarifies the genetic patterns of paternal lineages across East Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia. Han populations are relatively homogeneous, whereas southern ethnolinguistic minorities display regional structures. Shared Y‐chromosome lineages indicate Neolithic expansions and extensive north‐south gene flow, supporting demic diffusion ...
Yunhui Liu +15 more
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Gentrification Everywhere? Delinking Culture‐Led Regeneration From Gentrification
The Developing Economies, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 40-56, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper challenges the prevalent use of “gentrification” (shishen hua [士紳化/仕紳化] or jinshen hua [縉紳化]) as a catch‐all critique of culture‐led regeneration and neighborhood transformations, including rent increases and shifts in aesthetic and tastes, in Sinophone Asia and beyond.
Desmond Hok‐Man Sham
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Journal of Nursing Management, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Background Research has indicated that the internalization of emotion regulation is an important process for promoting positive work outcomes among employees. In Taiwan nursing contexts, however, the collectivist culture and high power distance within the Chinese community, along with the hierarchical and highly structured nature of nursing work, are ...
Li-Chuan Chu, Younjae Oh
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Kazakhstani Gansu Dungan as a Contact Language: An Analysis of Russian Influence
LanguagesThis paper discusses extensive language contact and its results in Kazakhstani Gansu Dungan, a divergent variety of Mandarin Chinese. Based primarily on recorded conversational source materials, this study offers a contact linguistic overview of the ...
Sami Honkasalo
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR
History 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
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Making vertebrate fossil radiocarbon dates more useful for global scientific research
Journal 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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Sociolinguistic variation in Colloquial Singapore English sia
World 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
Studia 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
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China, Chinese, Sinitic: a short conceptual (pre)history
, 2012 China, Chinese, Sinitic: a short conceptual (pre)history; Talk in St ...
Behr, Wolfgang, Behr, Wolfgang (5736026)
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The Topicalization Comparative Construction—Evidence from Sinitic and Beyond
LanguagesIn this paper, we discuss topicalization comparatives, an underrecognized subtype within the Heinean event-schema framework. Drawing on data from Nyanja, Malay, and Sinitic languages, the analysis corroborates the existence of a construction marked by a ...
Wen Lu
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