The inclusive-exclusive distinction in Tibeto-Burman languages
- A survey of 170 Tibeto-Burman languages showed 69 with a distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns, 18 of which also show inclusive- exclusive in Idual. Only the Kiranti languages and some Chin languages have inclusive-exclusive in the person marking. Of the forms of the pronouns involved in the inclusive-exclusive opposition, usually the exclusive form is less marked and historically prior to the inclusive form, and we find the distinction cannot be reconstructed to Proto-Tibeto-Burman or to mid level groupings. Qnly the Kiranti group has marking of the distinction that can be reconstructed to the proto level, and this is also reflected in the person-marking system.
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| Author: | Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157778 |
| URL: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Inclusive-Exclusive_in_TB.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Clusivity : typology and case studies on inclusive/exclusive oppositions, ed. by Elena Filimonova |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Pub. Co. |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam & Philadelphia |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/19 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/19 |
| GND Keyword: | Tibetobirmanische Sprachen ; Sinotibetische Sprachen |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 191 |
| Last Page: | 311 |
| Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Inclusive-Exclusive_in_TB.pdf ; (in:) Clusivity : typology and case studies on inclusive/exclusive oppositions, ed. by Elena Filimonova. - Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2005, |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 229183417 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
