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Grammaticalization in Sinitic Languages

, 2012
AbstractThis article provides an overview of the history of grammaticalisation in Sinitic languages. It discusses the evolution of the disposal or object marking constructions, passive and causative constructions, and classifiers. The model of grammatical change used in this study refers to two main mechanisms: analogy and reanalysis.
Chappell, Hilary, Peyraube, Alain
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Philosophizing Time in Sinitic Opera

Music 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.
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The Transformation and Cultural Adaptation of Jātaka Elements in Classic Malay Literature

Religions
The literature of the Malay world, profoundly influenced by Indian traditions, frequently adheres to the narrative patterns found in Indian literature. With the rise of Islam, literary works in the Parrot Story collection were used to propagate Islamic ...
Siaw Hung Ng
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East Asian languages in Lord’s Prayer collections, ca. 1600–1900

Histoire Épistémologie Langage
This paper provides a survey of versions of the Lord’s Prayer translated into several East Asian languages as they are attested in collections since the end of the 16th century. This is when the first relevant example appeared in print, namely a Literary
Sven Osterkamp
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KLSBench: Evaluating LLM Capabilities on Korean Literary Sinitic Texts in Historical Context

Applied Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) show limited capability in processing low-resource historical languages due to insufficient training data and domain-specific linguistic structures.
Seung-Hyun Han, Won-Seok Yang, Xiaohan Ma, Tae-Sun Chung   +3 more
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The Korean Images of Tibet and Sirhak Scholars: the Plurality of Truths? In Relation to the Issue of the Epistemological Shift in Eighteenth-Century Korea

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2011
This essay deals with the history of the perception of Tibet in the consciousness of Korea’s intellectuals from the seventh to nineteenth centuries. Since Tibet was peripheral from the viewpoint of Koreans, and direct contact between the two lands was ...
Vladimir Tikhonov
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De in Focus: Two Days of Vibrant Discourse at the 10th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar

Studies in Chinese Linguistics
The 10th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialect Grammar took place at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2024, organized by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies.

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Two Constraints on Tonal Derivation in Chinese [PDF]

Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2005
This paper aims to further examine two working constraints on tonal derivation proposed in some recent generative studies on Changting, namely One Step Principle (OSP) and Moving Windows Constraint (MWC). Our extension of the scope of discussion to other
Hui-chuan Hsu
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How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?

Linguistic Discovery, 2015
Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013).
Frenando Zúñiga
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How the Turtle Lost its Shell

HIMALAYA, 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.
Duncan J. Poupard
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