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PILASTERS AND DORMERS AND BRICK, OH MY!
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CAMBRIDGE - A camel, the old saw goes, is a horse designed by a
committee.
Zero Arrow Street, a new building in Cambridge, is a little bit
like that. There's nothing particularly objectionable about the
architecture. Nobody is going to say this is an offensive building.
That's the whole point: Zero Arrow is so completely lacking in any
definite character that it's sure not to offend anyone, anywhere,
anytime. With its new theater space, it's a welcome addition to the
life of Harvard Square. But architecturally, it is a strange salad of
mismatched ingredients.
You say you like modern? Then ...
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Sino-Tibetan Languages Get More World Attention
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; The Sino-Tibetan family of languages has attracted more and...attention from scholars, language experts said Thursday...international workshop on world languages. Once used by most...world, the various Sino- Tibetanlanguages were...
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Ashild Kolas and Monika P. Thowsen. On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier.(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International
; ...Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. Studies...survival among Tibetans in the areas traditionally...that is, ethnic Tibetan areas of inhabitation...teaching of Tibetan language in schools, the...context; the Tibetan language is languishing...maintenance of ...
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Half the ancient world.(The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; ...World's Ancient Languages promises a great...to it. Whole language families that...Australian Aboriginal languages, Japanese...Paleo-Siberian languages. None of these...subdivision of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and...
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Hmong Language and Cultural Maintenance in Merced, California
Magazine article from: Bilingual Research Journal
; ...ascertain whether the Hmong language and culture were shifting...though there were Hmong language and cultural resources...shift in their heritage language in terms of both ability...language is relevant to the Sino-Tibetan language family and has...
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Language spoken by Li ethnic people threatened with extinction
Newspaper article from: China Daily
; ...science. Li dialect, a language unique to the island...also the most unique language in the Zhuang-Dong branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The latest studies...close relationship with languages of Malay in Malaysia...
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The Man who loved languages: a scholar with the ability and audacity to rebuild the Tower of Babel died a year ago, but his controversial project lives on.(Sergei Starostin)(In memoriam)
Magazine article from: American Scholar
; ...dictionary of five Sino-Tibetan languages; a nearly 1,500...family of about 35 languages, including Chechen...Evolution of Human Languages or EHL. This international...etymological map of every language ever spoken or written...
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Koguryo, the Language of Japan's Continental Relatives: An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Korean Studies
; ...Archaic Koguryo" language (AKog) found in older...Koguryo and Japanese languages are genetically related...course, the mixed language theories. In his view...similarities with the Sino-Tibetan languages, he hypothesizes about...
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The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture, and Ethnicity, vol. 1.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...between human biology, language, and material culture...unmixed Indo-European language. We have come to...there. Words from the Sino-Tibetan family of languages are also present...long enough for their language to be altered by other...
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Genetic Profile of Two Tibetan Populations from China by Analysis of 15 STR Loci
Magazine article from: Human Biology
; ...sciences. The Tibetan ethnic group is...in China. The Tibetans number more than 1 million. Tibetan is a general term...Mountains and speak languages under the Tibetan...subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family (Matisoff 1991). Tibetans are an important...religion, and ...
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'Dog-Deer' lan seen as common Chinese ancestor
Newspaper article from: China Daily
; ...Chinese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, while Mongolian to the Altaic language family. Why are there...relationship between the two languages. Mang Muren's interest...most languages of the Sino-Tibetan and Altaic...
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