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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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Old chinese and friends: new approaches to historical linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area [PDF]
, 2019 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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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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Forensic Sciences Research, 2020 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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Emerging negative impact of warming on summer carbon uptake in northern ecosystems
Nature Communications, 2018 The impacts of climate change on summer carbon cycling in the northern hemisphere remain poorly resolved. Here the authors use atmospheric CO2 records from Point Barrow (Alaska) to show that summer CO2 drawdown is significantly negatively correlated with
Tao Wang +18 more
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HIMALAYA, 2018 This article is a pan-Himalayan story about how the turtle, as a cultural symbol within Sino-Tibetan divination iconography, came to more closely resemble a frog.
Duncan J. Poupard
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Geography and Sustainability, 2021 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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