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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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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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Forms of World Literature and the Taipei Poetry Festival

, 2017
In poetry anthologies and works of literary criticism, the authority to select which literature can become “world” literature often lies with a single editor or theorist.
ADMUSSEN, Nick
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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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The Coming Multi-Order World [PDF]

, 2016
The article shows that the current international system is changing towards a completely new form of international system, conceptualized as a multi-order system. The suggestion for a multi-order world stands in contrast to three current narratives about
Flockhart, Trine
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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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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 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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Tone Morphemes in Sinitic: Where Prosody Meets Morphology

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 2023
Tone morphemes are used in the coding of a variety of grammatical functions in Sinitic languages: These include plural formation of personal pronouns, the diminutive forms of nouns, as well as different kinds of perfective and completive aspect marking, reported for dialects located in non-contiguous areas of China in the north and the south.
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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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