TY  - CHAP
A1  - LaPolla, Randy J.
T1  - Ergative marking in Tibeto-Burman
T2  - New Horizons in Tibeto-Burman Morpho-syntax (Senri Ethnological Studies 41), ed. by Yoshio Nishi, James A. Matisoff, & Yasuhiko Nagano
N2  - This paper presents the first results of a comprehensive project on comparative Tibeto-Burman (TB) morpho-syntax. Data on morphological forms and typological patterns were collected from one hundred fifty-one languages and dialects in the TB family. For this paper the data were surveyed for nominal 'ergative' or agentive case marking (postpositions), in an attempt to determine if it would be possible to reconstruct an ergative case marker to Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB), and in so doing learn more about the nature of grammatical organization in PTB. Ablative, instrumental, genitive, locative, and other case forms were also surveyed for possible cognacy with ergative forms, as suggested in DeLancey 1984.
KW  - Tibetobirmanische Sprachen
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14866
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157910
UR  - http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Ergative_Marking.pdf
SP  - 189
EP  - 228
PB  - National Museum Of Ethnology
CY  - Osaka
ER  -