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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Khatso (Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman/Yi), spoken in Yunnan, has nearly the same construction. The difference is that the first clause containing 'one' is often followed by the topic marker, which itself can indicate temporal sequence. The topic marker is often omitted in casual speech, though. Since Khatso is a distant relative of the Sinitic languages, this construction may date back to Proto-ST -- or it may have been borrowed more recently from Mandarin. Looking at other Yi languages might shed light on this.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">cd<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 10:33:56 PM PDT, Jesus Francisco Olguin Martinez <olguinmartinez@ucsb.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">Dear all,<br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><span class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail-im"></span><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default">Sorry for not having been clearer in my previous email.</div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default">Yes, English 'once' is used in this way :) </div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default">I did not mention English and other European languages because in Mandarin and the other Hmong-Mien languages I mentioned before, the second clause appears with another linker (lit. <i>on(c)e</i>........'(<i>and</i>) <i>then</i>'). Accordingly, these languages show some sort of correlative construction. Based on the languages of the sample, this usage of 'on(c)e' in a correlative construction is not common cross-linguistically. It seems that Hmong-Mien languages have copied this strategy with native material from Mandarin. This is some sort of 'pattern replication'. I was expecting to receive more answers concerned with languages spoken in this area in order to see if these languages have also copied this pattern from Mandarin.</div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default">Thank you in advance.</div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default">Best,</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail-yj6qo ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail-ajU" style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801yqt1875527644" id="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801yqt60262"><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_quote"><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 8:37 PM Jesus Francisco Olguin Martinez <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:olguinmartinez@ucsb.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">olguinmartinez@ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">Dear all,</div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">I hope this message finds you well.</div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">As I was consulting various sources, it seems that the numeral 'one' in the expression of 'as soon as' is not common cross-linguistically. </div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">In my sample, this is attested in Standard Mandarin (i.e. <i>yī), </i>Xong (Hmong-Mien), and <span style="font-family:New serif;font-size:11pt;">Iu Mien (Hmong-Mien). Are you aware of any other languages that express 'as soon as' in a similar way?</span></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:New serif;font-size:11pt;"><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:New serif;font-size:11pt;">Thank you very much in advance.</span></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="ydp841b02dfyiv4727974801gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:small;">Best,</div><div><br clear="none"></div>-- <br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px;"><font face="AR CENA"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;">Jesús Olguín Martínez</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px;"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font style="background-color: inherit;" face="AR CENA">Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Linguistics</font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px;"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font style="background-color: inherit;" face="AR CENA"><i>University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)</i></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px;"><font size="2" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font style="background-color: inherit;" face="AR CENA"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jes%C3%BAs-olgu%C3%ADn-mart%C3%ADnez" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jesús-olguín-martínez</a></font></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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