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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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1787402024-07-05T04:17:43Z The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman DeLancey, Scott University of Colorado Arts and Humanities 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. Published version 2024-07-05T04:17:43Z 2024-07-05T04:17:43Z 1981 Journal Article DeLancey, S. (1981). The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 6(1), 83-101. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.6.1.05 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178740 10.32655/LTBA.6.1.05 1 6 83 101 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1981 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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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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