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Biogeography and Climate Drive Population Divergence and Genomic Vulnerability in High Altitude Endemic Bird. [PDF]
Mol EcolABSTRACT High‐elevation systems support species adapted to extreme conditions, and their rugged terrain and variable microclimates strongly shape evolution and persistence. Yet few studies have evaluated how geography and climate jointly shape genetic diversity, local adaptation and vulnerability to environmental change.
Wang N +8 more
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Overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax [PDF]
, 2010 At the earliest reconstructable stage of the development of the Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family, possibly as much as six thousand years ago (Thurgood 1994),1 the proto-language was monosyllabic. Matisoff (2014) reconstructs the syllable canon as *(P²) (P¹) Ci (G¹) (G²) V (ː) (w/y) (Cf) (s).2 It is not clear whether the prefixes in some or all cases ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Freeing Animals: Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Environmentalism and Ecological Challenges
Religions, 2023 Buddhist environmentalism in its varieties across the world is an integral part of the global environmental discourse centered on exploring new planetary ethics for sustainable futures.
Dan Smyer Yü
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Asymmetry of carbon sequestrations by plant and soil after forestation regulated by soil nitrogen
Nature Communications, 2023 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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, 2015 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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Languages, 2023 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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Sino-Tibetan Language Data and the Origin of East-Asian People
Data Science Journal, 2007 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
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2022 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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Austronesian and Dene-Basque (Dene-Caucasian)
Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 1993 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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Chinese Word Order in the Comparative Sino-Tibetan and Sociotypological Contexts
Languages, 2023 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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