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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
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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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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2023
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 circulations, which have ...
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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 circulations, which have ...
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Sino-Tibetan archaeolinguistics
Abstract This chapter summarizes the linguistic phylogeny of the Sino-Tibetan (ST) languages and how this phylogeny relates to archaeological and genetic information. Early Neolithic farmers of the upper Yellow River region during the early and middle Yangshao culture period ca.Bradley, David +3 more
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Morphology in Sino-Tibetan Languages
2020Sino-Tibetan is a highly diverse language family, in which a wide range of morphological phenomena and profiles may be found. The family is generally seen as split into two major branches, i.e., Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman, but while Sinitic is a fairly homogeneous group in terms of morphology, the so-called Tibeto-Burman branch of the family includes ...
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia +1 more
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Sino-Tibetan kin term *-i suffix
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1995In an earlier paper (Benedict 1990:168, fn.5), the writer has presented evidence for a kin term *-i suffix at the Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) level. Further examination of the matter, with material drawn from his study of ST kinship terminology (Benedict 1941) has shown that this affix is represented in a number of ST kin term etyma, with cognates in a ...
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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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Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese
2009While in some languages compounding can be considered peripheral, in Chinese compounding is the most productive means of word formation. It has been shown that approximately 80% of Chinese words are compound words (Xing, 2006). In the corpus of neologisms proposed in The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (2002) more than 90% of all new words are ...
CECCAGNO, ANTONELLA, B. BASCIANO
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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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