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TACKLING DIVERSITY IN SINITIC LANGUAGES

, 2015
International audiencePre-publication & pre-review version of 'Introduction: Ways of tackling diversity in Sinitic languages.' In: H.M. Chappell(ed.) Diversity in Sinitic languages, OUP, 2015, pp.
Chappell, Hilary
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On Sinitic influence on Macanese

Language Ecology, 2017
AbstractMacanese, the near-extinct Portuguese creole of Macao, is an understudied contact language with strong Malayo-Portuguese features. It is also characterised by Sinitic influence, which however has sometimes been downplayed in the literature (seeAnsaldo and Matthews 2004).
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Tense as an ‘Altaic’ feature in Northern Sinitic?

Sinitic languages are very often described as ‘tenseless’, since they are mostly seen as lacking grammatical markers of tense. However, the debate concerning the tenseless nature of Sinitic has not settled yet: several types of items (modal and aspectual
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco
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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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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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Multidisciplinary Study on Quang Chieu Lantern Pagoda of Ly Dynasty in Vietnam and Wall Paintings of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang

Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: история, филология
This study explores the 12th century Quang Chieu Lantern Pagoda of the Ly Dynasty. By integrating inscriptions, official historical records and Buddhist sutras, this article analyzes Buddhist symbol meaning of the pagoda.
Trong Duong Tran
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Is GIVE reliable for genealogical relatedness? A case study of extricable etyma of GIVE in Huī Chinese

Open Linguistics
This study provides an etymological study of one of the basic lexical items GIVE in a sample of 24 varieties of Huī Chinese, a lesser-known transitional group of Sinitic languages.
Hui Man-Shan, Lu Wen
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The Amount of Data Required to Recognize a Writer’s Style Is Consistent Across Different Languages of the World

Entropy
In this paper, we apply an information-theoretic method proposed by Ryabko and Savina (therefore called the RS-method), based on the use of data compression, to recognize the individual author’s style of a writer across four languages from different ...
Boris Ryabko, Nadezhda Savina, Yeshewas Getachew Lulu, Yunfei Han   +3 more
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Reconstruction and Concreteness: The Religious Background and Political Connotations of Gibbon-Themed Poetry and Painting in East Asian Elite Culture from the 12th to the 19th Centuries

Religions
The gibbon was an often-mentioned animal in the elite literati world of China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula during the twelfth to nineteenth centuries, with a large number of poems and paintings touching on the theme of gibbons.
Xuejun Liu
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