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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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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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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 ...
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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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