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Temperature terms in Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese

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Lao, Southern Zhuang, Southern Pinghua and Cantonese are four languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia. The study of the temperature systems in these four languages – two from the Tai family and two from the Sinitic family – provides an interesting test case for the areal study of temperature terms. There has been borrowing of temperature terms between the two families, both between the more modern stages of the languages and between Proto-Tai and Old/Middle Chinese. However, the resemblance in how the temperature continuum is carved up in these languages is not strong.

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    . n.d. Baxter-Sagart Old Chinese reconstruction. crlao.ehess.fr/document.php?id=1217 (17 July 2013).
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    2009 The Austronesian Languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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    2011 The Meaning and Use of Ideophones in Siwu. PhD dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen.
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    2003 Word order in Sino-Tibetan languages from a typological and geographical perspective. InThe Sino-Tibetan Languages, Graham Thurgood & Randy J. LaPolla (eds), 43–55. London: Routledge.
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    1991 Proto Southwestern Tai. PhD dissertation, State University of New York at Albany.
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    2007 Guidelines for collecting linguistic expressions for temperature concepts, Version 1. temperature.ling.su.se/images/7/7c/Guidelines.pdf (19 July 2013).
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    2012 The Noun Phrase Structure in the Zhuang Dialect of Tian Deng’. MA dissertation, Chulalongkorn University.
     [Google Scholar]
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    1977 A Handbook of Comparative Tai. Honolulu HI: University of Hawai’i Press.
     [Google Scholar]
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    2002 侗台语言与文化 Dòng-Tái Yǔyán yǔ Wénhuà (Kam-Tai Languages and Cultures). Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House.
     [Google Scholar]
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    2003 关于平话等的壮语借词 Guānyú Pínghuà děng de Zhuàngyǔ Jiècí (On the Zhuang loanwords in Pinghua etc.). Mínzú Yǔwén2003(2): 46–50.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Luo, Yongxian
    1997 The subgroup structure of the Tai Languages: A historical-comparative study. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series 12. Berkeley CA: Project on Linguistic Analysis, University of California.
     [Google Scholar]
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     [Google Scholar]
  20. Matthews, Stephen & Yip, Virginia
    1994 Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  21. Ostapirat, Weera
    2005 Kra-Dai and Austronesian: Notes on phonological correspondences and vocabulary distribution. InThe Peopling of East Asia: Putting Together Archaeology, Linguistics and Genetics, Laurent Sagart , Roger Blench & Alicia Sanchez-Mazas (eds), 107–131. London: Routledge-Curzon. doi: 10.4324/9780203343685_chapter_7
     https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203343685_chapter_7 [Google Scholar]
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    2009 The Phonology of Proto-Tai. PhD dissertation, Cornell University.
     [Google Scholar]
  23. Sagart, Laurent
    2004 The higher phylogeny of Austronesian and the position of Tai-Kadai. Oceanic Linguistics43: 411–440. doi: 10.1353/ol.2005.0012
     https://doi.org/10.1353/ol.2005.0012 [Google Scholar]
  24. de Sousa, Hilário
    . Forthcoming. Language contact in Nanning. From the point of view of Nanning Pinghua and Nanning Cantonese. Journal of Chinese Linguistics.
     [Google Scholar]
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     [Google Scholar]
  26. Sutrop, Urmas
    1998 Basic temperature terms and subjective temperature scale. Lexicology4: 60–104.
     [Google Scholar]
  27. 1999 Temperature terms in the Baltic Area. InEstonian: Typological Studies III [Publications of the Department of Estonian of the University of Tartu 11], Mati Erelt (ed.), 185–203. Tartu: University of Tartu.
     [Google Scholar]
  28. Zhang, Junru , Min, Liang , Jueya, Ouyang , Yiqing, Zheng , Xulian, Li & Jianyou, Xie
    1999 壮语方言研究 Zhuangyu Fangyan Yanjiu (Study of Zhuang dialects). Chengdu: Sichuan Nationalities Press.
     [Google Scholar]

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