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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Sino-Tibetan"”.
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Peripheral Alternatives: Media and Tibetan Nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere
… examines the media use in the spreading of Tibetan nationalism in the Chinese Tibetosphere, the struggling land of national politics situated between the two power centres of China and the exiled Tibet. For individual Tibetans on the ground, the small pieces and specific details in everyday …
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Politics of Tranquility: Religious Mobilities and Material Engagements of Tibetan Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao China
… ethnographically examines the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in Yachen, a mega-sized Tibetan Buddhist encampment in eastern Tibet that emerged in the 1980s and is now a leading center of Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in post-Mao China. Over 10,000 nuns make up the vast majority of the …
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Relational Verbs: Paradigm and Practice in a Manitoba dialect of Swampy Cree
… (Van Eijk, 1997), and Mandarin Chinese from the Sino-Tibetan language family (Kusmer, 2010). I will demonstrate how these constructions are extremely similar in function to the relational form, as they may be conditioned by the level of affectedness of the possessor and the Speaker’s empathy …
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The Sense of Identity in a Limbu Community of South Wales
The Limbus are a Sino-Tibetan ethnic group that are components of a federated Nepali community indigenous to the easterly regions of Nepal, and were among one of the favoured groups recruited by the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas. The transnational Nepali community in the focused region of South …
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The rooted state: Plants and power in the making of modern China’s Xikang Province
This dissertation takes the relationship between agricultural plants and power as its primary lens on the history of Chinese state-building in the Kham region of eastern Tibet during the early twentieth century. Farming was central to the way nationalist discourse constructed the imagined community …
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
In this thesis, I investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a …
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
In this thesis, I investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a …