Chinese dragon names
Borrowings/loans of Asian dragon names are an unsolved "Chinese puzzle" in comparative linguistics. Despite consensus that 'dragon' loanwords are widespread, debate continues over transfer dates and directions. Chinese is crucially important because it has one of the oldest and l...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179225 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Borrowings/loans of Asian dragon names are an unsolved "Chinese puzzle" in comparative linguistics. Despite consensus that 'dragon' loanwords are widespread, debate continues over transfer dates and directions. Chinese is crucially important because it has one of the oldest and largest 'dragon' lexical fields in any language. The purpose of this paper is collating Chinese dragon names in order to create a data base for future etymological studies. |
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