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East Asian languages in Lord’s Prayer collections, ca. 1600–1900
Histoire Épistémologie LangageThis paper provides a survey of versions of the Lord’s Prayer translated into several East Asian languages as they are attested in collections since the end of the 16th century. This is when the first relevant example appeared in print, namely a Literary
Sven Osterkamp
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Philippine Englishes in the Sino‐Philippine Lannang context
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 588-606, December 2024.Abstract This article explores the relationship between Philippine English and the Lannangs, individuals with Filipino and Southern Chinese cultural heritage. It highlights the multifaceted nature of this English variety by discussing how it interacts with non‐English languages in contemporary Lannang communities located in Manila, Iloilo and Cebu ...
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
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Open LinguisticsThis study is the first to comprehensively describe suffixing morphology in Zhangzhou Southern Min, an under-described Sinitic language spoken in southern China.
Huang Yishan
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Language Contact and Language Change in the History of the Sinitic Languages
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2010 AbstractThe Sino-Tibetan language family is one of the largest language families in the world, both in terms of number of speakers and in terms of geographic distribution. It includes the majority languages of China and Myanmar, plus minority languages in China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Northeast India.
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Health &Social Care in the Community, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Family doctors serve as the initial contact for individuals seeking regular medical service like routine physical exam, diagnosis, and treatment of illness. Nonetheless, immigrant population who do not speak the official language usually prefers receiving healthcare in their own mother tongues.
Dong Liu +4 more
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Language Contact and Areal Diffusion in Sinitic Languages
, 2001 Abstract This analysis includes a description of language-contact phenomena such as stratification, hybridization, and convergence for Sinitic languages. It also presents typologically unusual grammatical features for Sinitic such as double-patient constructions, negative existential constructions and agentive adversative pass ives ...
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Two Constraints on Tonal Derivation in Chinese [PDF]
Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, 2005 This paper aims to further examine two working constraints on tonal derivation proposed in some recent generative studies on Changting, namely One Step Principle (OSP) and Moving Windows Constraint (MWC). Our extension of the scope of discussion to other
Hui-chuan Hsu
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Variegated VC Rime Restrictions in Sinitic Languages
Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 2019 In this study, we consider a non-Markedness-based account for VC rime phonotactics in Sinitic languages, with special reference to Taiwanese Southern Min and Hakka. Rime gaps in Chinese languages have been customarily analyzed as co-occurrence markedness constraints.
Chiachih Lo +2 more
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Papers in Historical Phonology, 2016 This study focuses on the on-going disappearance of low tone breathiness in Shanghai Chinese. In the change from a voicing contrast to a tone register contrast in Sinitic languages, the ancient voiced series was characterised by a breathy voice quality ...
Jiayin Gao
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