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0000-0002-3790-8245
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The University of Auckland
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University of Sydney
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: DE GRUYTER
Date: 31-12-2015
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 21-04-2023
Abstract: While global patterns of human genetic ersity are increasingly well characterized, the ersity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on the structural ersity of the world’s languages, evaluate constraints on linguistic ersity, and identify the world’s most unusual languages. An analysis of the consequences of language loss reveals that the reduction in ersity will be strikingly uneven across the major linguistic regions of the world. Without sustained efforts to document and revitalize endangered languages, our linguistic window into human history, cognition, and culture will be seriously fragmented.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 2015
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 03-12-2015
Publisher: Brill
Date: 25-03-2022
DOI: 10.1163/26662523-BJA10004
Abstract: Pinghua 平話 is a Sinitic dialect group spoken in Guangxi in southern China. Within Chinese linguistics, there have been many debates on its affiliation. Pinghua is associated with the earliest Han Chinese migrants in Guangxi, but in terms of number of speakers in Guangxi Pinghua has been overtaken by Yue, Southwestern Mandarin, and Hakka. Pinghua is primarily associated with the Han Chinese migrants who entered Guangxi through Hunan, whereas Yue is primarily associated with those who entered Guangdong through Jiangxi. Yue speakers have subsequently spread westward in large numbers from Guangdong to Guangxi. Linguistically, the Pinghua dialects sit on a dialect continuum with the non-Cantonese Yue dialects in Guangxi. On the other hand, the Cantonese enclaves in Guangxi are the results of Cantonese people moving directly from the Pearl River Delta to Guangxi within the last 150 years or so.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 23-11-2022
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 04-10-2016
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Date: 06-07-2023
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 05-11-2018
Abstract: Is there a universal hierarchy of the senses, such that some senses (e.g., vision) are more accessible to consciousness and linguistic description than others (e.g., smell)? The long-standing presumption in Western thought has been that vision and audition are more objective than the other senses, serving as the basis of knowledge and understanding, whereas touch, taste, and smell are crude and of little value. This predicts that humans ought to be better at communicating about sight and hearing than the other senses, and decades of work based on English and related languages certainly suggests this is true. However, how well does this reflect the ersity of languages and communities worldwide? To test whether there is a universal hierarchy of the senses, stimuli from the five basic senses were used to elicit descriptions in 20 erse languages, including 3 unrelated sign languages. We found that languages differ fundamentally in which sensory domains they linguistically code systematically, and how they do so. The tendency for better coding in some domains can be explained in part by cultural preoccupations. Although languages seem free to elaborate specific sensory domains, some general tendencies emerge: for ex le, with some exceptions, smell is poorly coded. The surprise is that, despite the gradual phylogenetic accumulation of the senses, and the imbalances in the neural tissue dedicated to them, no single hierarchy of the senses imposes itself upon language.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 2012
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