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How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?

Linguistic Discovery, 2015
Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013).
Frenando Zúñiga
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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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KLSBench: Evaluating LLM Capabilities on Korean Literary Sinitic Texts in Historical Context

Applied Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) show limited capability in processing low-resource historical languages due to insufficient training data and domain-specific linguistic structures.
Seung-Hyun Han, Won-Seok Yang, Xiaohan Ma, Tae-Sun Chung   +3 more
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A general method for the statistical evaluation of typological distributions [PDF]

, 2010
The distribution of linguistic structures in the world is the joint product of universal principles, inheritance from ancestor languages, language contact, social structures, and random fluctuation.
Bickel, Balthasar
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Forms of World Literature and the Taipei Poetry Festival

, 2017
In poetry anthologies and works of literary criticism, the authority to select which literature can become “world” literature often lies with a single editor or theorist.
ADMUSSEN, Nick
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Is GIVE reliable for genealogical relatedness? A case study of extricable etyma of GIVE in Huī Chinese

Open Linguistics
This study provides an etymological study of one of the basic lexical items GIVE in a sample of 24 varieties of Huī Chinese, a lesser-known transitional group of Sinitic languages.
Hui Man-Shan, Lu Wen
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A quest for effective and inclusive design of Chinese characters in subtitling [PDF]

, 2018
Research on subtitling has developed rapidly in most Western countries in the last two decades, resulting in a certain consensus about standards. In response to new social and political challenges, in recent years the focus of research has broadened to ...
Casas-Tost, Helena, Rovira-Esteva, Sara
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Review of: Pinson, Thomas M. 2012. A Naxi-Chinese-English Dictionary (Naqxi-Habaq-Yiyu Ceeqdiail / 纳西汉英词典) [PDF]

, 2013
International audienceThis is a review of: Pinson, Thomas M. 2012.
Michaud, Alexis
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The translated identities of Chinese minority writers : Sinophone Naxi authors

, 2017
This paper will show the interplay between language and identity in the writing of Sinophone Chinese minority writers, who write what can be envisioned as a form of postcolonial literature.
POUPARD, Duncan
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The endangered Tanka language in Hong Kong: phonological variations and lexical convergence with Cantonese

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The Tanka people, colloquially known as the “boat people”, are primarily located in Southeast China. Over time, their transition from a maritime to a land-based lifestyle has significantly influenced the languages they speak, particularly through contact
Cong Wang, Daxingwang Peng, Yanmei Dai, Chong Qi   +3 more
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