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Sino-Tibetan Buddhism across the Ages
This 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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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 ...
Gros, Stéphane
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Thurgood Graham. The sino-tibetan copula *wəy. In: Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, vol. 11 1, 1982. pp. 65-81.
Thurgood, Graham
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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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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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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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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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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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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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