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Some Details from Eurasian Ethnic History – Altaic Peoples, Chinese Sources and Turania

Migracijske i etničke teme, 2000
In the first part of the paper, the author discusses some details pertaining to the Altaic languages and the location of the Altaic homeland. As to the key question of Altaic theory – i.e.
Emil Heršak
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Morphological Study on Inclusive in Tungusic

, 2013
Most of the Tungusic languages have two forms (inclusive/exclusive) in the first plural pronoun, depending on whether it includes the addressee or not. It is possible to divide the previous works on the morphological analysis of Tungusic inclusive forms ...
白, 尚燁
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'What's your name?' in Tungusic and beyond

, 2022
This study investigates questions about personal names, i.e. questions correspond- ing to What’s your name? in English. This potentially universal type of question is referred to as the personal name question (PNQ). The study sketches the typological variation found in the PNQ from a cross-linguistic perspective and analyzes the synchronic typology and
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Auxiliary Verbs in Tungusic from the Perspective of Areal Linguistic

, 2018
The main objective of this paper is to study distinctions of auxiliary verbs in Tungusic from the perspective of areal linguistics. In spite of some previous typological studies conducted in this regard, the specific difference of auxiliary verb ...
白, 尚燁
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Amuric-Tungusic language contact and the Amuric homeland

, 2023
Amuric (or Nivkh) is a shallow language family spoken on the Lower Amur and Sakhalin and with no apparent affiliation to other language families. As a consequence. reconstructing its more distant past has so far proven difficult.
Knapen, M.
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Expressing equality, similarity, and pretense in Even (Northern Tungusic, Siberia)

, 2019
In recent decades, considerable work has been done on the cross-linguistic comparison of comparatives, superlatives, and to a lesser extent, equatives, while similatives remain largely understudied.
B. Pakendorf
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Some thoughts on Tungusic ethnolinguistics

Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, 2014
Michael Knüppel: Sprachtabus in tungusischen Sprachen und Dialekten. Am Beispiel von S. M. Širokogorovs “Tungus Dictionary”. Tunguso-Sibirica, Band 33. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2012. 131 pp.
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The importance and challenges of documenting pragmatics

Language Documentation and Description, 2007
Pragmatic knowledge and linguistic use are fundamental parts of the ethnography of communication and are key to understanding basic communicative practices.
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Origin and diversity of the words denoting some traditional Eurasian pulse crops in Mongolic and Tungusic

, 2012
Supporters of the existence of the Altaic language family consider it to include Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean and Japonic branches, and believe that all of these originated from the Proto-Altaic.
Mikić, Aleksandar, Perić, Vesna
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Typology of Sinitic (Chinese)

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Sinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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