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Typology of Chinese Languages: An Introduction to the Special Issue

open access: yesLanguages
Of the world’s major language groups, the Sinitic (Chinese) branch of the Sino-Tibetan family stands out for the profound disconnect between its popular perception and its linguistic reality [...]
Umberto Ansaldo, Pui Yiu Szeto
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Overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax

open access: yes, 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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Preparatory Guidelines for Meditation in Pre-Modern Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

open access: yesReligions
This 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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The insecurity dilemma and the Sino-Tibetan conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Noting the inadequacies of existing IR theories to explain the security policies of states in the global south and the frequent intra-state conflicts there, this research demonstrates the analytical capacity of the insecurity dilemma as an ...
Topgyal, Tsering
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Latitudinal divergence in runoff responses to global forestation due to forest-atmosphere feedbacks

open access: yesNature Communications
Forestation is a pivotal nature-based solution for mitigating global warming, yet its unintended hydrological outcomes and associated geospatial patterns remain understudied.
Fei Kan   +8 more
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Bibliothèque sino-internationale, Genève

open access: yes, 1936
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Bibliothèque Sino-Internationale
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Sino-Tibetan ‘water’, ‘lip’ and ‘dog’: a new TB innovation ?

open access: yes, 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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The Dual Formative *tsi in Tibeto-Burman Languages

open access: yesHimalayan Linguistics
A pronominal dual formative derivable from *tsi, *ntsi, or *tsiŋ is attested sufficiently broadly across the Tibeto-Burman languages to require that these be reconstructed to the proto-language.
Scott DeLancey
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Levels of Germinable Seed in Topsoil and Yak Dung on an Alpine Meadow on the North-East Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

open access: yesJournal 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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