Kurtöp case: the pragmatic ergative and beyond
Kurtöp, an East Bodish language of Bhutan, uses case markers for a variety of functions. Like many Tibeto-Burman languages, Kurtöp evidences an ergative whose functions extend above and beyond the typical role of distinguishing the A argument in a bivalent clause. The Kurtöp ergative signals t...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177715 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | Kurtöp, an East Bodish language of Bhutan, uses case markers for a variety of
functions. Like many Tibeto-Burman languages, Kurtöp evidences an ergative whose
functions extend above and beyond the typical role of distinguishing the A argument in a
bivalent clause. The Kurtöp ergative signals the A argument in some bivalent clauses and
denotes a variety of pragmatic and semantic functions in both monovalent and bivalent
clauses. In bivalent clauses, a set of verbs also exhibit differential object marking,
employing a locative case-marker to designate various types of pragmatic focus. |
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