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A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia

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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The comparative construction in Sinitic languages: Synchronic and diachronic variation

, 2015
Chappell, Hilary, Peyraube, Alain
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Biocultural diversity of common walnut (Juglans regia L.) and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) across Eurasia

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, Stefano Del Lungo, Ruth Müller, Keith E. Woeste, Francesca Chiocchini, Jo Clark, Gabriel E. Hemery, Sergio Mapelli, Fiorella Villani, Maria Emilia Malvolti, Claudia Mattioni   +10 more
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Directionality of Atmospheric Water in Chinese: A Lexical Semantic Study Based on Linguistic Ontology

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, Yike Yang, He Ren, Chu-Ren Huang   +3 more
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RETRACTED: Forensic characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of one branch of Tai‐Kadai language‐speaking Hainan Hlai (Ha Hlai) via 23 autosomal STRs included in the Huaxia™ Platinum System

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, Xianwen Wang, Xiehong Wang, Fenfen Wang, Zhengming Du, Fangshu Fu, Wenlong Wu, Shuya Wang, Ziqing Mu, Chunwei Chen, Xiaomin Hu, Jiuyang Ding, Yunle Meng, Pingming Qiu, Haoliang Fan   +14 more
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A sketch of language history in the Korean Peninsula. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Among 7100 languages spoken on Earth, the Koreanic language is the 13th largest, with about 77 million speakers in and around the Korean Peninsula.
Sean Lee
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RETRACTED: Population genetic analysis of Shaanxi male Han Chinese population reveals genetic differentiation and homogenization of East Asians

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, Xing Zou, Guanjun Zhang, Hongyan Wang, Yongdong Su, Mengge Wang, Guanglin He   +6 more
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From Colloquialism to Metaphorical Expression: A Diachronic Study of Chinese Dialect Words Based on Chán Buddhist Literature

Religions, 2022
Chán Buddhist literature is not only an important source for the study of religious thought during the Chinese late medieval and early modern periods, but also constitutes a treasure trove for investigating the development of the colloquial language of ...
Chen Zeng, Christoph Anderl
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Typology of Sinitic (Chinese)

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Sinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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Elevation and fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Lexically, 52.99% of the Tibeto-Burman languages, the non-Sinitic branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family, treat fog as something identical or similar to cloud, based on our database of 234 Tibeto-Burman varieties; there are three lexical relations ...
Hongdi Ding, Sicong Dong
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