The rhetorical use of the Tibetan ergative
Tibetan as spoken in the Central province ("Lhasa dialect-) presents a standard nominal ergative structure. i.e. a specific marker for the agent2 of two-place predicates. and a 0 marker (the absolutive) for the patient of two-place predicates as well as for the only participant of one-place pre...
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2024
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | Tibetan as spoken in the Central province ("Lhasa dialect-) presents a standard nominal ergative structure. i.e. a specific marker for the agent2 of two-place predicates. and a 0 marker (the absolutive) for the patient of two-place predicates as well as for the only participant of one-place predicates. The ergative marker is a case particle formally identical to the instrumental. but functionally distinct from it. Besides its semantic and syntactic functions the ergative also has a rhetorical effect that will be examined below. First we will consider the standard function. |
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