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Asymmetry of carbon sequestrations by plant and soil after forestation regulated by soil nitrogen
Forestation is regarded as an effective strategy for increasing terrestrial carbon sequestration. However, its carbon sink potential remains uncertain due to the scarcity of large-scale sampling data and limited knowledge of the linkage between plant and
Songbai Hong +6 more
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This paper investigates reduplication in Kua’nsi, a Central Ngwi language of the Sino-Tibetan family, spoken in Yunnan Province, China, by around 5000 speakers.
Huade Huang
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This chapter discusses the word order patterns in the Sino-Tibetan languages. The two branches, Sinitic (Chinese) and Tibeto-Burman, differ in that clauses in Sinitic are largely verb-medial while those in Tibeto-Burman are verb-final. This chapter explains both patterns using information structure rather than grammatical relations, and looks at the ...
William S-Y. Wang +2 more
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Sino-Tibetan Language Data and the Origin of East-Asian People
In this paper, we introduce in brief the basic conditions of the Sino-Tibetan data resources, the STEDT project (the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus) at the University of California, Berkeley and the STDP (The Sino-Tibetan Database and
Qianzi Tian, Di Jiang
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Sino-Tibetan Style of Buddhist Sculpture: Articulation of the Attribution Problem
This article is devoted to the concept of “style” and the possibility of its application in the attribution of works of Buddhist metal sculpture. This aspect, which, as a rule, is peripheral for classical Oriental studies, Buddhology, and history, where ...
Victoria Vladimirovna Demenova
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Chinese Word Order in the Comparative Sino-Tibetan and Sociotypological Contexts
The present study discusses typology and variation of word order patterns in nominal and verb structures across 20 Chinese languages and compares them with another 43 languages from the Sino-Tibetan family.
Chingduang Yurayong, Erika Sandman
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Austronesian and Dene-Basque (Dene-Caucasian)
There is general agreement among linguistic "lumpers" today that the Dene- Caucasian macrophylum ("Dene-Basque" would be more correct) consists of the following languages and language families: BASQUE; North Caucasian; Sumerian; Burushaski; Sino-Tibetan;
W. Wilfried Schuhmacher, F. Seto
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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]
List J-M, Starostin G, Yunfan L. “Old Chinese and Friends”: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area. Journal of Language Relationship.
Lai, Y., List, J., Starostin, G.
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As a result of the expansion of old Tibet on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Tibetans diverged into three main branches, Ü-Tsang, Amdo, and Kham Tibetan.
Jiuyang Ding +7 more
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Research findings concerning the main processes influencing water resources differ substantially, and so the topic remains controversial. Recent studies indicate that the changes in water yield, expressed through the n-parameter of Budyko framework, are ...
Hui Yang +4 more
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