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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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1792302024-07-25T02:59:24Z The rhetorical use of the Tibetan ergative Tournadre, Nicolas University of Paris III and INALCO Arts and Humanities 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. Published version 2024-07-25T02:48:16Z 2024-07-25T02:48:16Z 1991 Journal Article Tournadre, N. (1991). The rhetorical use of the Tibetan ergative. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 14(1), 93-108. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.14.1.04 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179230 10.32655/LTBA.14.1.04 1 14 93 108 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1991 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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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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