Compounding and the structure of the Tani lexicon
Compounding in Tani appears to have been a process of disyllabification, where monosyllabic forms in Proto-Tani have been lexicalised as compounds. This has resulted in a interesting division in the Tani languages, with nouns and adjectives on the one hand being closely aligned, and verbs on the oth...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1779442024-06-05T00:51:31Z Compounding and the structure of the Tani lexicon Post, Mark La Trobe University Arts and Humanities Tani Compounding Compounding in Tani appears to have been a process of disyllabification, where monosyllabic forms in Proto-Tani have been lexicalised as compounds. This has resulted in a interesting division in the Tani languages, with nouns and adjectives on the one hand being closely aligned, and verbs on the other behaving quite differently. This division is interesting because of the more usual alignment in Asian languages of adjectives with verbs, not nouns. The story of this division is traced through the lexicon, with evidence from morphology, tone, segmental phonology and syllable structure, all showing a shift towards greater agglutination in Tani languages. Published version 2024-06-05T00:51:31Z 2024-06-05T00:51:31Z 2006 Journal Article Post, M. (2006). Compounding and the structure of the Tani lexicon. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 29(1), 41-60. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.29.1.02 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177944 10.32655/LTBA.29.1.02 1 29 41 60 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2006 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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Compounding in Tani appears to have been a process of disyllabification, where monosyllabic forms in Proto-Tani have been lexicalised as compounds. This has resulted in a interesting division in the Tani languages, with nouns and adjectives on the one hand being closely aligned, and verbs on the other behaving quite differently. This division is interesting because of the more usual alignment in Asian languages of adjectives with verbs, not nouns. The story of this division is traced through the lexicon, with evidence from morphology, tone, segmental phonology and syllable structure, all showing a shift towards greater agglutination in Tani languages. |
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