The clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae: A profile update
The clubroot pathogen wants to conquer the world, and how better than through social media. This Plasmodiophora brassicae profile highlights how the growers are in a constant fight with this devastating pathogen. Art by C.‐É. Brochu. Abstract Background Plasmodiophora brassicae is the causal agent of clubroot disease of cruciferous plants and one of ...
Muhammad Asim Javed +10 more
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Vowel Quality in Xiang Non-Lexical Hesitation Markers: New Forms of Typological Evidence?
Xiang (hsn) remains a poorly understood grouping within Sinitic, with no satisfactory conclusions on how to demarcate its boundaries or define its subgroupings.
Robert Marcelo Sevilla
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Learning and teaching Chinese as a foreign language: A scoping review
Abstract Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has been published so far. A total of 289 journal articles published in 95 journals were identified and used to provide a bibliometric mapping of research in CFL over three ...
Jessica Chan +3 more
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Topolects in Motion: Narrative Possibilities for Language Vitality among Mobile Chinese‐Canadians
This article examines the language autobiographies of 12 Chinese‐Canadians to address how topolects (Ch. fangyan)—spoken language varieties marking place‐based belonging—formulate identity once removed from their original places. We found that narrators located topolects in their pasts and homelands, while associating standard Mandarin with mobility ...
Shannon Ward +2 more
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Voice and Little v and VO–OV Word‐Order Variation in Chinese Languages
Abstract This article addresses some issues related to Voice and little v. It does so by discussing and analyzing the variation that exists in the Chinese language family with respect to object placement (VO versus OV). It turns out that this variation can be accounted for straightforwardly as long as we assume, first, that Voice and v are sometimes ...
Rint Sybesma
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An Ethnolinguistic Remark on the fēiyī 飛衣
This paper inquires the relationship between two Trans-Himalayan languages, namely Lohorung (Eastern Kiranti) and Old Chinese (Sinitic) by comparing their ‘soul’-related vocabulary.
Hürlimann, Simon
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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]
List J-M, Starostin G, Yunfan L. “Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. Journal of Language Relationship.
Lai, Y., List, J., Starostin, G.
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Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108 [PDF]
The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example.
Jingyi Gao
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Chinese language: terminology in the 21st century [PDF]
The past and present diversity of the Chinese-speaking world, as well as different history of Sinological studies, in particular, in Russia and in the West, caused the appearance of a complicated varying terminology used in modern Chinese linguistics ...
Zavyalova O.I.
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Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese: A Typological and Areal Perspective
The morpheme ‘give’ is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the distinct forms and multiple functions of ‘give’ in 27 varieties of Hui Chinese, a ...
Wen Lu, Pui Yiu Szeto
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