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From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective [PDF]
, 2010 In many languages, clauses can be subordinated by means of case markers. For Bodic languages, a branch of Sino-Tibetan, Genetti (1986) has shown that the meaning of case markers on clauses is in most instances a natural extension of their function on ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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Preparatory Guidelines for Meditation in Pre-Modern Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Traditions
ReligionsThis study offers a comparative analysis of preparatory practices in Buddhist meditation, focusing on the Tiantai tradition of medieval China and the Nyingma tradition of tenth-century Tibet.
Ching-Hsuan Mei
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Word formation in contemporary Liangmai: A morphological study [PDF]
, 2019 This paper attempts to discuss the different processes of word formation in contemporary Liangmai, a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language of the Kuki-Chin-Naga sub group (Bradley 1997).
Daimai, Kailadbou
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Tibetan Few‐Shot Learning Model With Deep Contextualised Two‐Level Word Embeddings
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Volume 10, Issue 5, Page 1394-1410, October 2025.ABSTRACT Few‐shot learning is the task of identifying new text categories from a limited set of training examples. The two key challenges in few‐shot learning are insufficient understanding of new samples and imperfect modelling. The uniqueness of low‐resource languages lies in their limited linguistic resources, which directly leads to the difficulty ...
Ziyue Zhang +11 more
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Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? ; how do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? [PDF]
, 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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Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2025.Abstract Primates, 69% of which are threatened with extinction, are the third most specious order of mammals. We used primates as model taxa to examine the umbrella effects of primates on ecosystem services and the protection of other vertebrates and seed plants in Yunnan Province, China.
Yin Yang +21 more
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Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2013 In order to clarify the interactive mechanism between grazing yak and alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, our study assessed seed density (by species) in the topsoil of alpine meadow with different grazing intensities in the Tianzhu area, north-
Xiao-jun YU +4 more
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Archaeological evidence for initial migration of Neolithic Proto Sino-Tibetan speakers from Yellow River valley to Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Liu L, Chen J, Wang J, Zhao Y, Chen X.
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Grammatical relations, agreement, and genetic stability [PDF]
, 2010 Languages vary in whether or not primary grammatical relations (PGRs) are sensitive to information from clause-level case or phrase structures. This variation correlates with a difference between verb agreement systems based on feature unification and ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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