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The Dative Markers and Their Developments in Hunan Sinitic Languages
LanguagesThis study is based on a sample of 30 Sinitic languages spoken in the Hunan Province. Its first objective is to explore the types of dative markers, comparing the form of the dative with allative, passive, benefactive, and differential object markers in ...
Xinyi Gao
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Languages, 2023 From the perspective of areal linguistics, this paper examines the similarities in tonal behavior between Sinitic and Kam-Tai, the two most populous language groups in Lingnan.
Hanbo Liao
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On Structural Particles in Sinitic Languages: Typology and Diachrony
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2022 In the Chinese linguistic tradition, the term ‘structural particle(s)’ (jiégòu zhùcí 结构助词) is used to refer to functional elements that mainly act as markers of adnominal modification, nominalisation, adverbial modification and in the so-called verb ...
Arcodia, Giorgio Francesco
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Disentangling complex language contact and admixture in the broad Gansu-Qinghai region [PDF]
Fundamental ResearchLanguage evolution in the Gansu-Qinghai (GQ) region provides a key perspective for understanding cultural development along the eastern Silk Road. Previous genetic and archaeological studies have revealed complex, multi-ethnic interactions in this region,
Hongye Jin +7 more
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The Amount of Data Required to Recognize a Writer’s Style Is Consistent Across Different Languages of the World [PDF]
EntropyIn 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 +3 more
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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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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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Synchrony and Diachrony of Sinitic Languages: A Brief History of Chinese Dialects
, 2001 Abstract Even though Sinitic languages are spoken by more than one billion people, very little research has been carried out on the synchronic grammar of major languages and dialect groups of Chinese, apart from standard Mandarin or putonghuali, and Cantonese to a lesser extent.
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Morphological coordination in Sinitic languages as a form of cyclic change
Abstract When examining the development of linguistic markers with similar meanings or grammatical functions, traditional literature on cyclic change often assumes a straightforward linear process where a new marker simply replaces an older one. This study highlights an overlooked form of cyclic change in Sinitic languages.
Haiping Long, Jian Wang
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Ancient Connections of Sinitic
Languages, 2023 Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian) are briefly outlined.
David Bradley
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