Sumi agentive and topic markers: no and ye
Sumi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nagaland, typically marks S and A arguments with one of two enclitics: no and ye. A preliminary analysis of these two markers posits no as an agentive marker that can also mark contrastive focus on the argument and ye as a topic marker that can also mar...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177650 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | Sumi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Nagaland, typically marks S
and A arguments with one of two enclitics: no and ye. A preliminary analysis of
these two markers posits no as an agentive marker that can also mark contrastive
focus on the argument and ye as a topic marker that can also mark a referent for low
agentivity. By presenting new data, the paper highlights how the boundary between
their semantic and pragmatic functions is not always clear and that categorising no
and ye is not always unproblematic. |
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