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Philippine Englishes in the Sino‐Philippine Lannang context
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 588-606, December 2024.Abstract This article explores the relationship between Philippine English and the Lannangs, individuals with Filipino and Southern Chinese cultural heritage. It highlights the multifaceted nature of this English variety by discussing how it interacts with non‐English languages in contemporary Lannang communities located in Manila, Iloilo and Cebu ...
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
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Towards a typology of relative clauses in Sinitic: headedness and relativisation strategies [PDF]
, 2017 The study of relative clauses (RCs) in Sinitic has attracted considerable attention in typological literature, especially because of the exceedingly rare correlation of Verb- Object order and prenominal relatives (Tang 2006; Dryer 2013b).
Arcodia G, Giorgio Francesco ARCODIA
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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The Wuhan dialect : a hybrid Southwestern Mandarin variety of Sinitic
, 2015 The Sinitic family has been under constant discussion in previous linguistic studies. Through extant research, a North-South demarcation line has been basically discovered within and phenomena of language contact been evidently observed beyond the ...
張世亮, Zhang, Shiliang
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Areal perspectives on total reduplication of verbs in Sinitic [PDF]
, 2015 The topic of reduplication in Sinitic languages has attracted much attention in the literature, but studies adopting a comparative and areal perspective are still lacking.
Arcodia, Giorgio F. +2 more
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Health &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Family doctors serve as the initial contact for individuals seeking regular medical service like routine physical exam, diagnosis, and treatment of illness. Nonetheless, immigrant population who do not speak the official language usually prefers receiving healthcare in their own mother tongues.
Dong Liu +4 more
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A grammar of Gan Chinese: the Yichun language Sinitic languages of China ;, v.1./ Xuping Li.
, 2018 China is very rich in language resources, and Mandarin is undoubtedly its most prestigious and well-known representative. Unfortunately, most of these languages remain understudied or even unstudied. Such is the case of Yichun Gan.Written in the style of
Li XuPing
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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 Semantics of Kinship in Sinitic Languages
, 2022 This chapter provides an overview of scholarly efforts to collect, codify, and explain kinship terms in Chinese history and research on kinship terms in Sinitic languages (Chinese dialects) in general and focuses primarily on distinctive Chinese approaches to the semantics of kinship terms and recent developments in Chinese kinship research.
Xue, Wendi, Ye, Zhengdao
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Surpass comparatives in Sinitic and beyond: Typology and grammaticalization
, 2010 The Surpass (or Exceed) comparative is a widespread feature of Sinitic languages found in almost all 'dialect' groups. This article investigates the nature of Surpass constructions in Southern Chinese varieties with a focus on Cantonese, and in unrelated
Ansaldo, Umberto +2 more
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