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The Only Known Text from Bala, an Extinct Tungusic Language

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021
Bala (bala1242) is an extinct Tungusic language formerly spoken in and around the Zhangguangcai mountain range in Northeast China. The language is only fragmentarily recorded. This study analyzes a song that is the only known text of this language and was written with the help of Chinese characters.
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Control and intermediate scrambling: An investigation of Kazakh relative clauses

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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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Reduplication in languages: A case study of languages of China [PDF]

, 2012
International audienceReduplication is widely attested in human languages, especially in the southern hemisphere. This distribution, often complementary with plural markings, is also found in languages spoken in China, which show a correlation between ...
Xu, Dan
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Lost and found in translation: the case of alliteration [PDF]

, 2014
The paper examines the transmission of alliteration in Estonian and Russian translated verse. The main focus is on the translation of alliterative epic, on the one hand, and more recent literary alliteration, on the other hand.
Lotman, Maria-Kristiina, Lotman, Mihhail
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The causal-noncausal alternation in the Northern Tungusic languages of Russia

, 2022
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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Pronominal declension in Altaic languages

Linguistica Brunensia, 2015
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

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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Tungus-Manchu Etymologies of Hydronyms of the Amur River Basin

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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, Julia Alexandrovna Varlamova   +1 more
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Refinitization of the Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) [PDF]

, 2016
version avant révisionInternational audienceThis chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which ...
Vanhove, Martine
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Altaic, so far

Migracijske i etničke teme, 1999
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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