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janvier 2016
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- doi: 10.2993/0278-0771-36.1.192
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Katia Chirkova et al., « Plant Names as Traces of the Past in Shuiluo Valley, China », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.2993/0278-0771-36.1.192
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This study presents results of interdisciplinary fieldwork in Southwest China by a team of linguists and ethnobotanists. It is based on a comparative analysis of 70 common plant names in five Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Shuiluo Valley. The discussion focuses on (a) names for locally important field crops and (b) plant names that are shared between two or more languages. We make a preliminary stratification of cognates and loanwords; we advance hypotheses about the sources of loanwords; and we assess the distribution of loanwords against the background of the existing historical and linguistic accounts of the studied languages. The observed patterns shed light on the