Optional marking of NPs with core case functions P and A in Lhaovo

• Main Author: Sawada, Hideo
• Other Authors: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign studies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Lhaovo; Case-marker
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177648
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lhaovo, a Burmish language, has a set of postpositional case-markers. Two core arguments of transitive verbs can both be marked with -∅, but the argument P (object) can also be marked with the accusative case-marker -re, and the argument A (subject) can also be marked with the instrumental cas...