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Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1991
This paper attempts the megalocomparison of the lexeme “vulva” across a number of languages distributed throughout East and Southeast Asia. The canonical syllable of Sino-Tibetan includes a possible prefix plus root; modern “vulva” forms from Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman languages suggest their historical source was a bi-syllabic morpheme which later ...
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This paper attempts the megalocomparison of the lexeme “vulva” across a number of languages distributed throughout East and Southeast Asia. The canonical syllable of Sino-Tibetan includes a possible prefix plus root; modern “vulva” forms from Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman languages suggest their historical source was a bi-syllabic morpheme which later ...
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2023
Abstract The Sino-Tibetan borderlands cover a vast mountainous expanse inhabited by agricultural and pastoral communities of various ethnicities, predominantly Tibetan-speaking groups. An area of mutual interest, rivalry, and conflict, it has been the scene of lively religious and commercial exchanges, remarkable cultural flows, and ...
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Abstract The Sino-Tibetan borderlands cover a vast mountainous expanse inhabited by agricultural and pastoral communities of various ethnicities, predominantly Tibetan-speaking groups. An area of mutual interest, rivalry, and conflict, it has been the scene of lively religious and commercial exchanges, remarkable cultural flows, and ...
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1972
A comprehensive account of the Sino-Tibetan, a language stock comparable in size and diversification to Indo-European and comprising Chinese, Karen and over a hundred Tibetan-Burman languages. Dr Benedict presents a systematic analysis of the morphology and phonology of the main descendants of the stock, traces their family relationships and ...
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A comprehensive account of the Sino-Tibetan, a language stock comparable in size and diversification to Indo-European and comprising Chinese, Karen and over a hundred Tibetan-Burman languages. Dr Benedict presents a systematic analysis of the morphology and phonology of the main descendants of the stock, traces their family relationships and ...
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1993
This paper investigates the lexical item for "wheel" across Sino-Tibetan languages, focusing on phonological forms such as kolo, khorlo, and related variants. Drawing on data from Tibetan dialects, Menba, Luoba, and Chinese regional varieties, Bauer traces the diffusion and transformation of the term, highlighting its phonetic consistency and semantic ...
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This paper investigates the lexical item for "wheel" across Sino-Tibetan languages, focusing on phonological forms such as kolo, khorlo, and related variants. Drawing on data from Tibetan dialects, Menba, Luoba, and Chinese regional varieties, Bauer traces the diffusion and transformation of the term, highlighting its phonetic consistency and semantic ...
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Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages
2021This book introduces the reader to different cases of cultural intersections between Tibet and China in the field of Buddhism. The ten chapters provide a series of insights into Sino-Tibetan exchanges within religious practices and doctrines, material culture and iconography.
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2016
There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions
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There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions
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Abstract Conversion has been sometimes claimed to be a common occurrence in Chinese, as e.g. piàoliang ‘pretty’ → ‘prettiness’ (Steffen Chung 2014). However, the application of the notion of conversion to Chinese poses several challenges, related to the (isolating/analytical) morphological profile of the language, and to how word ...
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Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1940
IT MAY seem strange that the comparative philology of some of the African, American Indian, Indonesian, and other lesser groups of languages has been more or less satisfactorily accomplished, while the comparative grammar of Sino-Tibetan, which from the point of view of the number of speakers, culture and economic importance ranks second in the world ...
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IT MAY seem strange that the comparative philology of some of the African, American Indian, Indonesian, and other lesser groups of languages has been more or less satisfactorily accomplished, while the comparative grammar of Sino-Tibetan, which from the point of view of the number of speakers, culture and economic importance ranks second in the world ...
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Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1950
ALTHOUGH MOST linguists generally concede that a great number of languages of southeast Asia probably form one linguistic family-the Sino-Tibetan, -this view was not scientifically established but rested until a few years ago only upon a number of common features of the languages composing the " family ": monosyllabism, tones, and many roots ...
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ALTHOUGH MOST linguists generally concede that a great number of languages of southeast Asia probably form one linguistic family-the Sino-Tibetan, -this view was not scientifically established but rested until a few years ago only upon a number of common features of the languages composing the " family ": monosyllabism, tones, and many roots ...
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