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Chinese language: terminology in the 21st century [PDF]
Восточная Азия: факты и аналитика, 2020 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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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]
, 2019 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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Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese: A Typological and Areal Perspective
Languages, 2023 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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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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Linguistics, 2022 This study is based on a sample of 116 languages from the Mainland East and Southeast Asian linguistic area. Its first objective is to examine four distinct synchronic patterns of areal polysemy, created by the semantic domains of copular, locative ...
Chappell Hilary, Lü Shanshan
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 10, Issue 20, Page 11192-11216, October 2020., 2020 Little is known about how anthropogenic processes have affected the evolution of tree species with a long‐time‐scale history of human utilization such as common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). In this study, we evaluated the impact of isolation by distance processes, landscape heterogeneity, and cultural boundaries
Paola Pollegioni +10 more
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Molecular Genetics &Genomic Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 10, October 2020., 2020 The first batch of 23 autosomal STR profiles of Ha Hlai, one important branch of Hainan Li (Hlai), were obtained and reported by genotyping 657 Ha Hlai individuals (497 males and 160 females) utilizing the Huaxia™ Platinum PCR Amplification System.
Wenhui Li +14 more
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Molecular Genetics &Genomic Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2020., 2020 Abstract Background Shaanxi province, located in the upper Yellow River, has been evidenced as the geographic origin of Chinese civilization, Sino‐Tibetan‐speaking language, and foxtail or broomcorn millet farmers via the linguistic phylogenetic spectrum, archeological documents, and genetic evidence. Nowadays, Han Chinese is the dominant population in
Luyao Li +6 more
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SAGE Open, 2021 Why are fog, dew, and frost said to “fall” in some languages when they don’t in the physical world? We explore this seeming infelicity to study the nature of linguistic conceptualization. We focus on variations and changes of the morphosemantic behaviors
Sicong Dong +3 more
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Molecular Genetics &Genomic Medicine, Volume 8, Issue 4, April 2020., 2020 Genetic diversity and forensic characteristics were investigated in four Tibetan‐Burmese ethnic corridor populations. The 30 insertion/deletion polymorphism can be used for forensic personal identification in Dujiangyan Tibetans, Muli Tibetans, Xichang Yis, and Yanyuan Mosuos.
Xing Zou +10 more
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