<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">Dear ALT, </font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">I would like to post a "Journal Call for Papers" for <i>Asian Languages and Linguistics</i> published by John Benjamin. </font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">Details are as follows: </font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div class="ydp5c23b0ffWordSection1"><h1 align="center" style="margin: 17pt 0cm 16.5pt; line-height: 70.4000015258789px; font-size: 22pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 76.80000305175781px;">Journal Call for Papers</span></h1><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS </span></i><span lang="EN-US">(ALaL) is an international journal, </span><span lang="EN-US">published by </span><span lang="EN-US">John Benjamins Publishing Company with sponsorship from the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University. </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">ALaL </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">is a peer reviewed forum for </span><span lang="EN-US">high-quality linguistic research on languages spoken throughout Asia: the Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Altaic, Uralic, Turkic, Caucasian, Afro-Asiatic, Indo-European, Unclassified languages</span><span lang="EN-US">/</span><span lang="EN-US">language isolates, etc. Localized European Languages (Indian English, Singapore English, etc.), and Pidgins and Creoles spoken in Asia (Naga Pidgin Assamese, Asian Portuguese creoles, etc.) are also in the scope of our journal.</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The journal encourages submissions from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the following:</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">• Theoretical research on the syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, and pragmatics of any Asian language, and the interface studies such as syntax-semantics interface and morphology-phonology interface. </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">• Typological research based on empirical data or theoretical analysis (following any framework) on the structural diversities and cross-linguistic variations among Asian languages or between Asian languages and other languages. </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">• Diachronic research based on a careful investigation of Asian languages data that contribute to the theory or methodology of historical linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary study which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, language variation, typology, etc. </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">• Cross-disciplinary research between linguistics and philosophy, psychology, language processing, etc. that contributes to the understanding of Asian languages.</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Contributions from a comparative or typological perspective are especially welcome. We also welcome cross-disciplinary studies, such as the results of cross-linguistic research using the methods of psycholinguistics or neurolinguistics.</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The editorial board members are all renowned experts in the field of Asian language studies, including:</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold";">Editors</span></b></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Danqing Liu | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Ailan Fu | Beijing Normal University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Gong Cheng | Zhejiang University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold";">Associate Editors (listed alphabetically by last name)</span></b></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Anvita Abbi | Jawaharlal Nehru University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald | James Cook University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Walter Bisang | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Bernard Comrie | University of California, Santa Barbara</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Gabi Danon | Bar-Ilan University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">R.M.W. Dixon | James Cook University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">N.J. Enfield | The University of Sydney</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Andrey Filchenko | Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Jianhua Hu | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Chenglong Huang | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Xing Huang | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Randy J. LaPolla | Nanyang Technological University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Chungmin Lee | Seoul National University & The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Thomas Hun-Tak Lee | The Chinese University of Hong Kong</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Chinfa Lien | National Tsing Hua University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Haihua Pan | The Chinese University of Hong Kong</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Jungku Park | Seoul National University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Alain Peyraube | The French National Centre for Scientific Research</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Yukinori Takubo | National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Fuxiang Wu | Beijing Language and Culture University</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Abdurishid Yakup | Minzu University of China</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Hongming Zhang | University of Wisconsin-Madison</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">ALaL </span><span lang="EN-US">is published with <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">two issues per year (volume) of 200 pages each, starting in </span>2020. As a newly-inaugurated international journal, it is indexed in:</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Linguistic Bibliography</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Bibliographie Linguistique</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission Process</span></b></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US">From March 2020, <i>Asian Languages and Linguistics</i>editorial office has launched a new online system “Editorial Manager”. 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If you need help during your submission and revision, please refer to the Tutorial supplied on the website. </span><p></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Contributions must be in <b><u>English</u></b>. Spelling should be either American English or British English and should be consistent throughout the paper. 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line-height: 64px; font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 64px; font-family: "Times New Roman";">contents</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold";">Volume 01 Issue 01</span></b></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Foreword</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Liu Danqing, Ailan Fu & Gong Cheng</span></i></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US">ARTICLES</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">Aspects of word formation processes in Luro: The endangered language of the Nicobar Islands</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Anvita Abbi & Vysakh R</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">Radical analyticity and radical pro-drop scenarios of diachronic change in East and mainland Southeast Asia, West Africa and Pidgins and Creoles</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 21pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Walter Bisang</span></i></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 21pt;"><span lang="EN-US">A root-and-pattern approach to word-formation in Chinese</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 21pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Cheng Gong & Liu Ying</span></i></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">Linguistic manifestation of fictive change participants: Apparent alternations between the accusative and the dative/comitative cases in Korean and Japanese</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Katsunobu Izutsu & Yong-Taek Kim</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">Forward to the past: Modernizing linguistic typology by returning to its roots</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Randy J. LaPolla</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">Case markers and language contact in the Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Chenlei Zhou</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify; text-indent: 12pt; line-height: 14pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman Bold";">Volume 01 Issue 02</span></b></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US">ARTICLES</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">An ethnolinguistic repositioning of the Balmiki language of Odisha: A bibliographic appraisal</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Biswanandan Dash & Subrat Kalyan Pattanayak</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">A historical investigation into Persian prefixal verbs based on </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic";">Syâsat-nâmeh</span></i><span lang="EN-US">and a contemporary corpus</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 21pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Jalal Rahimian, Mehrzad Mansuri & Shima Alipouri </span></i></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 21pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Mechanisms of semantic change: the case of Cantonese slang</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 21pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US">May L-Y Wong</span></i></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">From topic marker to case marker: A case of case formation in Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Dan Xu</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">On the Nature of AA Question in Yi and Related Problems</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Heyou Zhang & Muji Wuni</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US">NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 21pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span lang="EN-US">The structural uniqueness of languages and the value of comparison for language description</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Martin Haspelmath</i></span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US">BOOK REVIEW</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US">The Study of Word Stress and Accent</span></p><p class="ydp5c23b0ffMsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-indent: 24pt;"><span lang="EN-US"> <i>Jia Guo, Siyi Jia & Yanting Sun</i></span></p><div><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">Thank you very much in advance!</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">Best wishes,</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">Chia-Jung Pan</font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">--</font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">Chia-Jung Pan, Ph.D., LCRC, JCU<br>Associate Professor</font></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div><font size="3">Center for Linguistic Sciences</font></div><div><font size="3">Institute for Advanced Research of Humanities and Social Sciences</font></div><div><font size="3">Beijing Normal University </font></div></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><font size="3">Mobile: 886+953621062 (Taiwan)</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;" data-setdir="false"><font size="3">Mobile: 86+18649173184 (P.R. 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