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Typological variation across Mandarin dialects: An areal perspective with a quantitative approach
Abstract This study explores the range and diversity of the typological features of Mandarin, the largest dialect group within the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Feeding the typological…
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Multiple Correspondence and Typological Convergence in Contact-Induced Grammaticalization
This paper examines the emergence of perfective aspect in Cantonese-English bilingual children from the perspective of contact-induced grammaticalization, focusing on the novel use of already .…
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Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity
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It is proposed that elaboration of morphological structure only happens in a certain type of languages, and cannot be taken as an overall diagnostic of age across the world?s languages, nor are all morphologically free languages ‘young’.
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Creole typology is analytic typology
This paper reviews a number of specific features typical of analytic languages, in an attempt to investigate whether Creole languages can indeed be grouped, at least structurally, with other…
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Bilingual children as “laboratories” for studying contact outcomes: Development of perfective aspect
Abstract This paper examines the close parallels between the contact phenomena in Cantonese-English bilingual children and Southeast Asian creoles, especially in the domain of perfective aspect…
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Establishing a Sprachbund in the Western Lingnan region: conceptual and methodological issues
Abstract It is well-known that Tai-Kadai languages have affected the typological profiles of Southern Sinitic varieties. For example, compared with their northern sisters, Southern Sinitic varieties…
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Altaicization and De-Altaicization of Japonic and Koreanic
This article discusses 40 grammatical features in Japonic and Koreanic in relation to their neighbouring languages in Northeast Asia. The data comprise 66 modern language varieties of 13 different…
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SUPPORTING EVIDENCE FOR LANGUAGE POLYGENESIS FROM NEANDERTHAL-HUMAN INTERBREEDING
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Revisiting the Amdo Sprachbund: Genes, languages, and beyond
This paper attempts to discuss the convergence phenomena in the Amdo Sprachbund in the light of genetic and cultural/religious factors. As an ethnolinguistically diverse region, the Amdo Sprachbund…
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A parallelism in the postverbal auxiliary verb constructions in languages of Northeast and Southeast Asia
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