Core participant marking in Khumi

• Main Author: Peterson, David A.
• Other Authors: Dartmouth College
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Khumi; Foregrounding
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177661
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Bangladesh Khumi, core participants (S, A, P, and R) frequently occur with three apparent case markers: =lö1, =mö3, and =a1. Examination of these elements’ distribution in a large naturalistic text corpus, however, reveals the first two have primarily discourse motivations. =lö1 is a straigh...