supported by the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences(2015CASEABRI005,Y4ZK111B01).
Twenty new species of extinct spiders belonging to 10 genera in five families from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber are reported.One new genus,Triangulum Jiang&Li,gen.nov.,of the family Theridiidae Sundevall,1833 was esta...
The existence of loanwords,whose emergence has a profound connection with cultural globalization,is undoubtedly obliged to be valued.This phenomenon of linguistic integration can be appreciated everywhere in all major...
From a perspective of cognitive linguistics,this paper systematically compares and analyzes prototypical child metaphors“gift”and“baobei”in English and Chinese.The analysis,based on corpora and etymologies,shows t...
From the perspective of language contact theory,this thesis analyzes the formative causes of English loanwords,the etymology of English loanwords,the classification of English Loanwords and the influence of loanwords ...
This paper outlines Liùshū六書interpretations of Chinese character etymology to help cocreate a better approach for educators in supporting character literacy development in students of the East Asian languages that...
The study of the origin of words and their meanings is called ‘etymology.’Teachers of English to both native and non-native speakers have,for many years,considered the benefits of etymology for language learning (Be...
Surname, as precious cultural heritage, has been playing an important role in human development. Closely related with history, religion, tradition and the like, it draws lasting attention from many scholars and is stu...
This thesis aims to distinguish polysemy and homonomy in the diachronic prospective by comparing the definition, cause of formation, analyzing principles of distinction. The study also values the principles in which t...
The appellation to call a girl in Qingdao dialect is“da man‐er”(大嫚儿),which is supposed to derive from German word“Damen”phonetically,according to:(1)remarkable similarities in meaning,pronunciation,and consist...