Invited comment on 'This and that in TB/ST'
Of necessity, Benedict's discussion of Tibeto-Burman deitics is complex and far- ranging. At one point or another in the history of TB. the deictics have been incorporated, on the nominal side, into pronominal systems. ergative case marking systems, and topicalization; on the verbal side, d...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178758 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | Of necessity, Benedict's discussion of Tibeto-Burman deitics is complex and far-
ranging. At one point or another in the history of TB. the deictics have been incorporated,
on the nominal side, into pronominal systems. ergative case marking systems, and topicalization;
on the verbal side, deictics have been incorporated into pronominal agreement systems, tense-
aspect systems, and copular systems. As a consequence, the very complexity of that paper makes
it difficult in a short space to do much more than comment on isolated parts. |
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