Time expressions in Daai Chin
The Daai Chin people from the Southern Chin Hills of Burma II. 21 continue to preserve a picturesque semantic categorization of temporal reference. Most of the Daai speaking area remains without electricity and few people possess watches. Teachers, students. soldiers. and government servants may...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1789062024-07-12T04:04:45Z Time expressions in Daai Chin Hartmann-So, Helga Arts and Humanities The Daai Chin people from the Southern Chin Hills of Burma II. 21 continue to preserve a picturesque semantic categorization of temporal reference. Most of the Daai speaking area remains without electricity and few people possess watches. Teachers, students. soldiers. and government servants may have watches and use the Burmese/Western system of dividing time among themselves, but by far the majority of the Daai speaking people are both monolingual and use their traditional system of time expressions. Published version 2024-07-12T04:04:44Z 2024-07-12T04:04:44Z 1987 Journal Article Hartmann-So, H. (1987). Time expressions in Daai Chin. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 10(1), 147-151. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.10.1.09 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178906 10.32655/LTBA.10.1.09 1 10 147 151 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1987 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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The Daai Chin people from the Southern Chin Hills of Burma II. 21 continue
to preserve a picturesque semantic categorization of temporal reference. Most
of the Daai speaking area remains without electricity and few people possess
watches. Teachers, students. soldiers. and government servants may have watches and use the Burmese/Western system of dividing time among themselves, but by far the majority of the Daai speaking people are both monolingual and use their traditional system of time expressions. |
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