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Tibetan ‘wind’ and ‘wind’ illnesses: towards a multicultural approach to health and illness
, 2010 This article discusses the Tibetan notion of rlung, usually translated as: ‘wind’, but perhaps better understood as a close equivalent of pneuma in the Greek tradition, or qi in the Chinese tradition.
Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
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, 2010 Two problems cloud our understanding of subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman. One is the lack of consistent and clear standards and principles for subgrouping.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Middle Chinese y- opposite Written Tibetan g-
, 2017 Baxter and Sagart (2014) reconstruct three uvular initial consonants in OC, *q-, *qʰ- and *ɢ-. Nonpharyngealized *ɢ- evolves to MC y-. Meanwhile, in Written Tibetan, OC uvular stops generally correspond to velar stops.
Laurent Sagart
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Overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax
, 2017 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)
LaPolla, Randy J.
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On the change to verb-medial word order in proto-Chinese : evidence from Tibeto-Burman
, 2010 In attempting to reconstruct the morphosyntax of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, one of the most basic questions to be answered is what was the unmarked word order of the proto-language?
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Sino-Tibetan ‘water’, ‘lip’ and ‘dog’: a new TB innovation ?
, 2017 Old Tibetan had lost a -j ending (Hill 2014:107). Thus some Tibetan words ending in vowels had a -j after that vowel at some point before Old Tibetan.
Laurent Sagart
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Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change [PDF]
, 2016 Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change is the first publication that brings together leading experts from different disciplines to discuss the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context of Asian book culture. Readership:
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Extension of the growing season increases vegetation exposure to frost
Nature Communications, 2018 Plant growing season increases under a warming climate, but it is not known whether this will alter plant exposure to frost days. Here Liu et al. investigate trends in the Northern Hemisphere over 30 years and find increased exposure to frost days in ...
Qiang Liu +9 more
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, 2020 There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few ...
Coupe, Alexander R.
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Bibliothèque sino-internationale, Genève
, 1936 [s.c.
Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale
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