Sumi agentive and topic markers: no and ye

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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Main Author: Teo, Amos
Other Authors: Australian National University
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Published: 2024
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1776502024-05-29T08:30:12Z Sumi agentive and topic markers: no and ye Teo, Amos Australian National University Arts and Humanities Case Agentive 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. Published version 2024-05-29T08:30:12Z 2024-05-29T08:30:12Z 2012 Journal Article Teo, A. (2012). Sumi agentive and topic markers: no and ye. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 35(1), 49-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.35.1.04 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177650 10.32655/LTBA.35.1.04 1 35 49 74 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2012 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf
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Sumi agentive and topic markers: no and ye
description 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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