Vowel Quality in Xiang Non-Lexical Hesitation Markers: New Forms of Typological Evidence? by Robert Marcelo Sevilla

“…Xiang (hsn) remains a poorly understood grouping within Sinitic, with no satisfactory conclusions on how to demarcate its boundaries or define its subgroupings. …”
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The <i>Odae chinŏn</i> (Five Great Mantras) and <i>Dhāraṇī</i> Collections in Premodern Korea by Richard D. McBride

“…This essay provides a detailed analysis of the components that appear in the <i>Five Great Mantras</i> by analyzing six variant editions of the text dating from the Chosŏn period, including <i>Brief Transcriptions of Efficacious Resonance</i> (<i>Yŏnghŏm yakch’o</i>) in Sinitic and Korean vernacular translation. The <i>Five Great Mantras</i> demonstrates the significance of non-canonical materials in the Korean Buddhist tradition and suggests a fruitful avenue for study of similar woodblock prints and manuscripts in the Sinitic Buddhist tradition.…”
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Coarse Cloth and Fine Brocade: Intertopicality, Lyricism, and Nature in the Poetry of Sugawara no Michizane and Ch’oe Ch’iwŏn by Mikhail Skovoronskikh

“…This study explores the two men’s poetry—the pinnacle of cultural production at the time—to shed more light on the reception of Sinitic tradition by authors hailing from the margins of the Chinese ecumene. …”
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A sketch grammar of Singapore Teochew by Low, Elissa Jia Min

“…This is a sketch grammar of the Singaporean variety of Teochew (also known as Chaozhou), a language from the Southern Min branch of the Sinitic family. It aims to offer a broad overview of the phonological structure and grammatical features of Singapore Teochew based on data from three native Teochew speakers. …”
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A note on PST-level morphosyntax by Benedict, Paul K.

“…Three kinds of situation arise in this connection: (I) A and B are alternatives and a choice is to be made between them: (2) the feature appears only in Tibeto-Karen or Sinitic (Chinese, Bal) and a choice is to be made between positing absence or retention/loss; (3) the feature appears to be represented In both divisions of the stock and accordingly is to be set up at the PST level.…”
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Sociolinguistic motivations in sound change: on-going loss of low tone breathy voice in Shanghai Chinese by Jiayin Gao

“…In the change from a voicing contrast to a tone register contrast in Sinitic languages, the ancient voiced series was characterised by a breathy voice quality, which remained as a secondary and redundant cue of low tones in Shanghai Chinese. …”
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A sketch grammar of Singapore Hainanese by Goh, Benjamin Jer Ming

“…Little has been done on this topic in Singaporean academia, particularly in the areas of Hainanese grammar, and so it is hoped that this paper will provide a means by which some knowledge of Singapore Hainanese can be preserved, for it is a unique language which is mutually unintelligible with its Sinitic cousins. Singapore Hainanese has also divulged greatly from its roots in Hainan, having come into intense contact with other languages in multilingual Singapore. …”
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Chinese Philosophy of Life, Relational Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Jana S. Rošker

“…Among other issues, this perspective is meaningful because in the Sinitic areas the pandemic has so far been brought under control much quicker and more effectively than in other regions of the world. …”
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Phonology of Singapore Dabu Hakka by Liaw, Zi Yang

“…Keywords: Dabu Hakka language, Hakka Chinese language, phonology, language documentation, Sinitic, Singapore…”
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Winkin', blinkin' and nod: a study in historical-comparative semantics of Southeast Asian languages by Bauer, Robert S.

“…Among some languages belonging to the Sinitic, Tibeto-Burman, Kru-Ini Austronesian, Yao, and Mon-Khmer groups. the lexemes wink (eye), wave (hand), flash (lightning) appear to constitute a word family. …”
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Vernacular Language and the Wu Dialect in the Formation of a Chan Koine and the Rise of Chan/Zen Philology: The Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries by John Alexander Jorgensen

“…They needed to deal with at least four registers; the language of the street in their district, the Chan koine with its colloquialisms and argot, the <i>guanhua</i> or official language, and the elite formal language in Literary Sinitic that was packed with allusions. Zen monks in Japan had to deal with registers of Japanese, plus the Chan koine and the formal Literary Chinese. …”
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The Rhythm of Breath in Natsume Sōseki’s <i>Recollecting and Such</i> by Matthew Mewhinney

“…The narrator’s awareness of the duration, frequency, and intensity of sensation as well as his regular compositions of metered verse—haiku and <i>kanshi</i> (traditional Chinese poetry as practiced in Japan; Sinitic verse)—are ways that the narrative measures the limits of life, memory, and sensory experience. …”
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East Asian Buddhism and Korea’s Transnational Interactions and Influences by Kevin N. Cawley

“…No one can dispute the significant influence of Sinitic Buddhism in East Asia, but Korean Buddhists were also unquestionably close to the center of the development of different schools of Buddhism in mainland China, particularly in the Jiangnan region, which had historically drawn monks from the peninsula. …”
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Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese: A Typological and Areal Perspective by Wen Lu, Pui Yiu Szeto

“…This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the distinct forms and multiple functions of ‘give’ in 27 varieties of Hui Chinese, a lesser-known group of Sinitic languages. Making use of both primary and secondary data, we have identified ten different functions of GIVE, namely (i) lexical verb ‘give’, (ii) recipient marker ‘to’, (iii) benefactive marker ‘for’, (iv) purpose marker, (v) permissive marker, (vi) passive marker, (vii) pretransitive disposal marker, (viii) allative marker, (ix) locative marker ‘at/in’, and (x) temporal marker ‘till’. …”
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The Last Confucians of Mid-20th Century Vietnam by Tuan-Cuong Nguyen

“…This article will also focus on the VATS’s Confucian cultural practices, such as (i) publishing as a way to promote Confucianism and traditional morality, (ii) Confucianism and Literary Sinitic education, (iii) public speeches, (iv) organizing the annual commemoration of Confucius’ birthday on September 28th, (v) and promoting international cooperation related to Confucianism. …”
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Rethinking the Description and Typology of Cantonese Causative–Resultative Constructions: A Dynamic Constructionist Lens by Ryan Ka Yau Lai, Michelle Man-Long Pang

“…We show how our account can shed light on Sinitic typology and the grammaticalisation mechanism of verbal particles within CRCs, particularly the extension of result verbs into a broader range of contexts to become particles. …”
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Phonology and phonetics of Singapore Hakka by Chia, Ai Ying

“…Hakka is a major branch of the Sinitic language family. The language consists of many varieties due to language contact as, historically, Hakka people migrated southwards within China, and then to other parts of the world, with Singapore being one of the destinations. …”
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Singlish in SingPoWriMo : an ethnographic investigation into the perceived uses of and attitudes towards Singlish in computer-mediated contemporary Singaporean poetry by Han, Rachelle Jia Ling

“…On the other hand, in the case of Singaporeans, the use of Singlish to index otherness culminates in acute awareness of the marginalisation of minority languages in the Sinitic bias towards discussing Singlish.…”
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Genetic variation and population structure analysis of Chinese Wuzhong Hui population using 30 Indels by Xing Zou, Zheng Wang, Guanglin He, Mengge Wang, Jing Liu, Shouyu Wang, Ziwei Ye, Fei Wang, Yiping Hou

“…The Wuzhong Hui people have a close genetic relationship with populations of geographical proximity and Sinitic-speaking populations, while they are different from other continental populations and Turkic-speaking populations.…”
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Current and Future Pathotyping Platforms for <i>Plasmodiophora brassicae</i> in Canada by Heather H. Tso, Leonardo Galindo-González, Stephen E. Strelkov

“…At present, pathotypes are distinguished phenotypically by their virulence patterns on host differential sets, including the systems of Williams, Somé et al., the European Clubroot Differential set, and most recently the Canadian Clubroot Differential set and the Sinitic Clubroot Differential set. Although these are frequently used because of their simplicity of application, they are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and can lack sensitivity. …”
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