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Comparative in Tungusic languages
The morphological marking of adjectival comparatives, although prevalent in European languages, is a crosslinguistically uncommon feature. Grammaticalization processes in comparative markers represent a typologically underexplored field of study. Similar to other linguistic areas, the majority of Siberian languages lack morphological comparative ...
V.Ju. Gusev, N.B. Aralova
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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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The analysis of Yakut personal names is made to reveal the peculiarities of ethnic world view basing on the works of turkologist Nikolay Klimovich Antonov.
Egor Revolevich Nikolaev
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The causal-noncausal alternation in the Northern Tungusic languages of Russia
Languages differ widely in the way they code causal-noncausal alternations, in which a verb event is either presented as happening by itself (the noncausal event) or as being instigated by an external causer (the causal event). Some languages, such as English, tend not to make a morphological distinction; rather, the same form of certain verbs can ...
Aralova, Natalia, Pakendorf, Brigitte
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Control and intermediate scrambling: An investigation of Kazakh relative clauses
This paper investigates apparent locality violations in Kazakh (Turkic) relative clauses. The empirical starting point of this study is the configuration where the genitive-marked relative clause subject establishes agreement with the noun phrase ...
Eszter Ótott-Kovács
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Pronominal declension in Altaic languages
This article gives a summary of the pronominal declension in the five branches of the Altaic lan-guages (till the present time it was not realized at least in any individual branch), reconstructs pro-nominal declension for the daughter protolanguages ...
Václav Blažek, Michal Schwarz
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Some Details from Eurasian Ethnic History – Altaic Peoples, Chinese Sources and Turania
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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Tungus-Manchu Etymologies of Hydronyms of the Amur River Basin
This article focuses on the toponymy of Siberia, presenting a detailed etymological analysis of the Amur River system from the perspective of spatial orientation among the Evenki and related Tungus-Manchu peoples.
Alexander Nikolaevich Varlamov +1 more
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This article consists of free parts. In the first one is a bibliographical survey of the most important literature that appeared in the fields of study of individual five Altaic language groups (Japanese, Korean, Manchu-Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) as
Alexander Vovin
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Unveiling 2,000 years of differentiation among Tungusic-speaking populations: a revised phylogeny of the paternal founder lineage C2a-M48-SK1061. [PDF]
Yu HX +8 more
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