Agentive marking in Yongning Na (Mosuo)
Agentive marking in Yongning Na (Mosuo) appears with non-canonical constituent orders; with ellipsed patients; to indicate volitionality and agency; to mark contrastive focus/switch in actor; and acts as an utterance predicate with direct speech complements. Semantic extension has occurred fro...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177660 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Agentive marking in Yongning Na (Mosuo) appears with non-canonical
constituent orders; with ellipsed patients; to indicate volitionality and agency; to
mark contrastive focus/switch in actor; and acts as an utterance predicate with direct
speech complements. Semantic extension has occurred from the contrastive focus
usage of the agentive, which marks a constituent as salient, to an emphatic marker,
which marks saliency on non-nominals. Although agentive marking often occurs in
clauses with structural ambiguity, it often does not resolve this structural ambiguity.
Structural ambiguity, however, rarely results in true ambiguity. |
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