Valence-changing particles in Pwo Karen
Pwo Karen has a large number of verb particles, some of which may increase or decrease the valence of the verb. This paper describes such valence changing verb particles. When Pwo Karen is compared with Burmese, a neighboring Tibeto-Burman language, from the viewpoint of valence-changing, the...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177729 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | Pwo Karen has a large number of verb particles, some of which may
increase or decrease the valence of the verb. This paper describes such valence changing verb particles. When Pwo Karen is compared with Burmese, a
neighboring Tibeto-Burman language, from the viewpoint of valence-changing, the
difference between these two languages is brought into high relief. Burmese only
has a few valence-changing auxiliary-like morphemes, and especially it does not
have a valence-decreasing one. Many of the situations which are expressed with the
valence-changing verb particles in Pwo Karen are conveyed by using particles
following the nouns in Burmese, therefore we can say that Pwo Karen shows
stronger head-markingness than Burmese. Pwo Karen and Burmese are largely
different not only in word order but also in the details of their grammars, though
they are neighboring languages of the same linguistic stock. |
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