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Typology of Chinese Languages: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Languages
Of the world’s major language groups, the Sinitic (Chinese) branch of the Sino-Tibetan family stands out for the profound disconnect between its popular perception and its linguistic reality [...]
Umberto Ansaldo, Pui Yiu Szeto
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“Bie zai tiqi” and You Mean the World to Me: Two Subversive Sinophone Malaysian Metatexts

Open Cultural Studies, 2020
This article aims at exploring the subversive nature of two Sinophone Malaysian cultural products, namely “Bie zai tiqi” (2002) a short story by Ho Sok Fong and You Mean the World to Me (2017), a full-length feature film by director Saw Teong Hin.
Paoliello Antonio
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Tones in Cantonese English and Musical Intervals [PDF]

, 2014
Poster PresentationConference Theme: Linguistic Diversity in Asia: Theories and MethodsThe Program and Abstracts can be viewed at: http://linguistics.hku.hk/summer/CONF.pdfIt has been shown that the relative pitch levels of Cantonese tones closely ...
Yiu, SSY
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Sino-African Philosophy: A Re-“Constructive Engagement” [PDF]

, 2019
“Constructive-Engagement” is a meta-philosophical and meta-methodological “strategy” suggested by Chinese and comparative philosophy scholar Bo Mou for analyzing and enriching philosophical exchange.
DOTTIN, Paul A.
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Suffixation in Zhangzhou

Open Linguistics
This study is the first to comprehensively describe suffixing morphology in Zhangzhou Southern Min, an under-described Sinitic language spoken in southern China.
Huang Yishan
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Interactions of Sinitic Languages: Introduction

, 2022
This chapter provides an overview of the selection of the chapters included in Section 3 of The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. The chapters present a broad picture of the dynamic interactions within Sinitic languages and of those between Sinitic languages and non-Sinitic languages, and explore how such interactions have influenced the ...
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On the Typology of Basic Locative Constructions in Sinitic Languages [PDF]

, 2014
Session 7This paper aims to study the Basic Locative Constructions (BLCs) in Cantonese and Shanghainese by using a standardized picture elicitation method.
Ng, KT
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A general method for the statistical evaluation of typological distributions [PDF]

, 2010
The distribution of linguistic structures in the world is the joint product of universal principles, inheritance from ancestor languages, language contact, social structures, and random fluctuation.
Bickel, Balthasar
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The Last Confucians of Mid-20th Century Vietnam

Asian Studies, 2020
The Vietnam Association of Traditional Studies (VATS) took the initiative in promoting Confucian cultural practices in South Vietnam from 1955–1975.
Tuan-Cuong Nguyen
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Review of: Pinson, Thomas M. 2012. A Naxi-Chinese-English Dictionary (Naqxi-Habaq-Yiyu Ceeqdiail / 纳西汉英词典) [PDF]

, 2013
International audienceThis is a review of: Pinson, Thomas M. 2012.
Michaud, Alexis
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