... s Elementa linguae tartaricae, the first grammar of Manchu in a European language—in this case, Latin, the lingua franca of the Society of Jesus and generally of educated people in early modern Europe. Nappi presents Verbiest in all these shapes to show how translating is an act of creatively transforming and manipulating (more or less concrete) materials: in their substance, in space and time, and according to their readers and listeners. Verbiest tries to give to an already existing language, Manchu, a fixed and established structure by putting its ...
Tópico(s): Chinese history and philosophy
2022 - University of California | Comitatus
In this paper I examine vowel harmony in Oroch, a recently extinct Manchu-Tungusic language. Oroch vowels are subject to the interplay of retracted tongue root (RTR) harmony and rounding harmony. The two kinds of harmony have contrasting effects on neutral vowels. The front vowels /i/ and / æ/ are transparent to RTR harmony, while the vowels /i/, /æ/ and /u/ are opaque to rounding harmony. Crucially, if the root contains only neutral vowels /i/ and /æ/, the RTR feature of the suffix is unpredictable. This ...
Tópico(s): Speech Recognition and Synthesis
2013 - Elsevier BV | Lingua
... moralism and western legal rationalism facilitated the developing lingua franca of international law while connecting, as well, to Chinese interests in adapting ideas of sovereignty and non-intervention. This paper focuses on the intersection of republican virtues and imperatives of collective security while balancing foreign policy considerations relating to extraterritoriality, the Open Door policy, and the imperfect transmission of western legal principles to post-Manchu China. The export of liberal international principles to ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
2021 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal