The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman
Recent descriptive and historical work on Tibeto-Burman has shown that personal indices on the verb in the "pron- ominalized" languages generally reflect not semantic roles or grammatical relations, as in more familiar languages, but a hierarchy of person in which first and second per...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178740 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Recent descriptive and historical work on Tibeto-Burman
has shown that personal indices on the verb in the "pron-
ominalized" languages generally reflect not semantic roles
or grammatical relations, as in more familiar languages,
but a hierarchy of person in which first and second person
are always indexed in preference to third. It is shown
here that in PTB and in a few modern languages this hierarchy
was also reflected in a direction marking system, in which
a transitive verb is morphologically marked according as
the patient is higher or lower on this hierarchy than the
agent. |
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