Erika Sandman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erika Sandman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erika |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandman |
| SIGNATURE | SANDMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6036-0441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historical narratives and sociolinguistic factors affecting language use of the Hakkas in Thailand
The Hakka people, a subgroup within the Han Chinese ethnicity and part of the Southern Sinitic language family, have migrated from China to various regions in Southeast Asia over several centuries. In Thailand, some Hakka communities have successfully preserved their linguistic heritage, while others have experienced a decline in language use. This study explores the historical narratives of the Hakka across different regions of Thailand and exam…
Assessing language vitality and analyzing factors behind language maintenance and language shift
The Role of Buddhism in the Language Ecology and Vitality of Tai Phake in Assam (India) and Wutun in Qinghai (China)
This study examines the role of Buddhism in the vitality of local languages as an asset of indigenous traditions, focusing on two geographically disconnected minority language communities: Tai Phake in the state of Assam, India, and Wutun (Ngandehua) in the Qinghai province of China. The investigation addresses various factors related to the ecology of speech communities discussed in connection with religion. The data are based on longitudinal ob…
Doing things with grammar
This paper studies the way utterances project properties of the interactional context via the choice of grammatical indexicals. Our analysis is an original combination of existing theoretical developments including notions of grammatical indexicality ( Silverstein 1976 ), of the relational structure of indexical reference ( Hanks 2014 ) and of presupposition accommodation (von Fintel 2008 ; Heim 1982 ; Karttunen 1974 , among others). While Silver…
Nominalization in Wutun
In this paper I discuss the various functions of nominalization in Wutun, a mixed Sinitic language spoken by ca. 4000 people in Qinghai Province, Northwest China. Nominalization in Wutun is expressed by the multi-purpose marker - de (cognate to Standard Mandarin de 的 ), which functions on both the lexical and clausal levels. Lexical nominalization takes the verb as its domain to derive nouns or adjectives, while clausal nominalization takes the e…
Chinese Word Order in the Comparative Sino-Tibetan and Sociotypological Contexts
The present study discusses typology and variation of word order patterns in nominal and verb structures across 20 Chinese languages and compares them with another 43 languages from the Sino-Tibetan family. The methods employed are internal and external historical reconstruction and correlation studies from linguistic typology and sociolinguistics. The results show that the head-final tendency is a baseline across the family, but individual langu…
Egophoricity and evidentiality
This article discusses how evidential and egophoric making is used to manage knowledge in interaction. To this end, it analyzes interactional data from Wutun (mixed Sinitic, Northwest China) and Upper Napo Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador). Wutun has an egophoric marking system, which, according to the definition of egophoricity, encodes involvement/lack of involvement in the described event. Upper Napo Kichwa has a set of evidentials, which, according …
Differential argument marking and the multifunctional case marker -ha in Wutun
This paper discusses the various functions of the multifunctional case marker - ha in Wutun, a mixed Sinitic language with Northwest Mandarin lexicon and Amdo Tibetan syntax spoken in Tongren County, eastern part of Qinghai Province, Amdo Sprachbund. I will show that the use of - ha is connected to Differential Argument Marking and it is motivated partly by semantic factors and partly by information structure. The case marker - ha often occurs on…
Tibetan as a “model language” in the Amdo Sprachbund
This paper outlines Tibetan morphosyntactic features transferred into two genetically unrelated and typologically distinct languages, Salar (Turkic) and Wutun (Sinitic), both spoken in the same linguistic area, the Amdo Sprachbund located in the Upper Yellow River basin in Western China. Part of the research cited in this paper was carried out under the research project “Interactional, Cross-Linguistic, Theoretical and Areal Perspectives on Evide…
Egophoricity and evidentiality
This article discusses how evidential and egophoric making is used to manage knowledge in interaction. To this end, it analyzes interactional data from Wutun (mixed Sinitic, Northwest China) and Upper Napo Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador). Wutun has an egophoric marking system, which, according to the definition of egophoricity, encodes involvement/lack of involvement in the described event. Upper Napo Kichwa has a set of evidentials, which, according …
Tibetan as a “model language” in the Amdo Sprachbund
This paper outlines Tibetan morphosyntactic features transferred into two genetically unrelated and typologically distinct languages, Salar (Turkic) and Wutun (Sinitic), both spoken in the same linguistic area, the Amdo Sprachbund located in the Upper Yellow River basin in Western China. Part of the research cited in this paper was carried out under the research project “Interactional, Cross-Linguistic, Theoretical and Areal Perspectives on Evide…
Tibetan as a “model language” in the Amdo Sprachbund
This paper outlines Tibetan morphosyntactic features transferred into two genetically unrelated and typologically distinct languages, Salar (Turkic) and Wutun (Sinitic), both spoken in the same linguistic area, the Amdo Sprachbund located in the Upper Yellow River basin in Western China. Part of the research cited in this paper was carried out under the research project “Interactional, Cross-Linguistic, Theoretical and Areal Perspectives on Evide…
Differential argument marking and the multifunctional case marker -ha in Wutun
This paper discusses the various functions of the multifunctional case marker - ha in Wutun, a mixed Sinitic language with Northwest Mandarin lexicon and Amdo Tibetan syntax spoken in Tongren County, eastern part of Qinghai Province, Amdo Sprachbund. I will show that the use of - ha is connected to Differential Argument Marking and it is motivated partly by semantic factors and partly by information structure. The case marker - ha often occurs on…
Egophoricity and evidentiality
This article discusses how evidential and egophoric making is used to manage knowledge in interaction. To this end, it analyzes interactional data from Wutun (mixed Sinitic, Northwest China) and Upper Napo Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador). Wutun has an egophoric marking system, which, according to the definition of egophoricity, encodes involvement/lack of involvement in the described event. Upper Napo Kichwa has a set of evidentials, which, according …
Nominalization in Wutun
In this paper I discuss the various functions of nominalization in Wutun, a mixed Sinitic language spoken by ca. 4000 people in Qinghai Province, Northwest China. Nominalization in Wutun is expressed by the multi-purpose marker - de (cognate to Standard Mandarin de 的 ), which functions on both the lexical and clausal levels. Lexical nominalization takes the verb as its domain to derive nouns or adjectives, while clausal nominalization takes the e…
Chinese Word Order in the Comparative Sino-Tibetan and Sociotypological Contexts
The present study discusses typology and variation of word order patterns in nominal and verb structures across 20 Chinese languages and compares them with another 43 languages from the Sino-Tibetan family. The methods employed are internal and external historical reconstruction and correlation studies from linguistic typology and sociolinguistics. The results show that the head-final tendency is a baseline across the family, but individual langu…
Doing things with grammar
This paper studies the way utterances project properties of the interactional context via the choice of grammatical indexicals. Our analysis is an original combination of existing theoretical developments including notions of grammatical indexicality ( Silverstein 1976 ), of the relational structure of indexical reference ( Hanks 2014 ) and of presupposition accommodation (von Fintel 2008 ; Heim 1982 ; Karttunen 1974 , among others). While Silver…
Historical narratives and sociolinguistic factors affecting language use of the Hakkas in Thailand
The Hakka people, a subgroup within the Han Chinese ethnicity and part of the Southern Sinitic language family, have migrated from China to various regions in Southeast Asia over several centuries. In Thailand, some Hakka communities have successfully preserved their linguistic heritage, while others have experienced a decline in language use. This study explores the historical narratives of the Hakka across different regions of Thailand and exam…
Assessing language vitality and analyzing factors behind language maintenance and language shift
The Role of Buddhism in the Language Ecology and Vitality of Tai Phake in Assam (India) and Wutun in Qinghai (China)
This study examines the role of Buddhism in the vitality of local languages as an asset of indigenous traditions, focusing on two geographically disconnected minority language communities: Tai Phake in the state of Assam, India, and Wutun (Ngandehua) in the Qinghai province of China. The investigation addresses various factors related to the ecology of speech communities discussed in connection with religion. The data are based on longitudinal ob…
Linguistics (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Evidentiality (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)