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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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From language to meteorology: kinesis in weather events and weather verbs across Sinitic languages
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of the most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates the use of different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a language family spoken over a
Chu-Ren Huang +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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Sino-Uralic etymology for 'Jupiter, year' supported by rhyme correspondence [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified seven Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies (etyma). Three of them form a rhyme correspondence. Two of them form an onset correspondence. Four of them form another rhyme correspondence.
Gao, J.
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Comunicación, 2023 Malaysia is home to a sizeable ethnic Chinese community that speaks several Sinitic languages. As such, it is not only an importer of Sinophone culture, but also an important site of Sinitic-language cultural production.
Antonio Paoliello
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Tense as a Grammatical Category in Sinitic: A Critical Overview
Languages, 2023 Sinitic languages are very often described as tenseless, since they are generally seen as lacking ‘true’ grammatical markers of tense: thus, the interpretation of time reference relies on other factors, such as aspect, modal verbs, and the use of time ...
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
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On etymology of Finnic term for 'sky' [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 Using etymological methods, the present study has identified five Sinitic and Uralic shared etymologies. These five etymologies form a rhyme correspondence. This regular sound change validates the etymological connection between Sinitic and Uralic.
Gao, J.
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 768-783, April 2023., 2023 Abstract What is Chinese nationalism? Is nationalism the most effective framework for understanding how people in China are making sense of the world today? These are among the questions raised by Allen Carlson in his 2009 article ‘A flawed perspective: the limitations inherent within the study of Chinese nationalism’, which developed a provocative ...
Kevin Carrico
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Grammaticalization in Sinitic Languages
A handbook of grammaticalization.Edited by Bernd Heine &Heiko Narrog, 2012 AbstractThis article provides an overview of the history of grammaticalisation in Sinitic languages. It discusses the evolution of the disposal or object marking constructions, passive and causative constructions, and classifiers. The model of grammatical change used in this study refers to two main mechanisms: analogy and reanalysis.
Chappell, Hilary, Peyraube, Alain
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