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Browsing Humanities by Subject "language contact"

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  • A Linguistic Classification of Buddhist Sanskrit Lexical Borrowings in Chinese 
    Fernando, K.D.K.D.T. (International Conference on Sanskrit and Eastern Studies, 2018 Department of Sanskrit and Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018)
    Sanskrit and Chinese are two genetically unrelated languages from two different language families. Sanskrit is an Indo-Aryan language whereas Chinese is a Sino Tibetan language. These two languages came into strong contact ...
  • Morphosyntactic Parallels and Contrasts in Sri Lankan Contact Language Participial Constructions 
    Slomanson, P. (Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The Sri Lankan contact varieties of Malay (SLM) and Portuguese (SLP) share features they do not share with other Sri Lankan languages, including pre-verbal functional markers for tense, mood and aspect (TMA) contrasts. ...
  • Origin of the Sinhalese composite verbs: a comparative study 
    Assajithissa Thero, Kurupita (Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The aim of this study is to examine the origin of Sinhalese composite verbs with reference to other Middle Indo Aryan Languages and Tamil language. The origin of Sinhalese composite verbs is extremely controversial. A ...

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