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Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax

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Variable finals in proto-Sino-Tibetan (1994)
Randy J. LaPolla: This paper concentrates on variable finals, and argues that just as we find a certain amount of both rule-governed and non-rule governed variation in modern languages, in reconstructing Proto-Sino-Tibetan we should recognize the possibility of these types of variation.

Evidentiality in Qiang (2003)
Randy J. LaPolla: The Qiang language is spoken by about 70,000 (out of 200,000) Qiang people, plus 50,000 people classified as Tibetan by the Chinese government. Most Qiang speakers live in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau in the mountainous northwest part of Sichuan Province, China. The Qiang language is a member of the Qiangic branch of the Tibeto-Burman family of the Sino-Tibetan stock. Within Tibeto-Burman, a number oflanguages show evidence of evidential systems, but these systems cannot be reconstructed to any great time depth. The data used in this chapter is from Ranghang Village, Chibusu District, Mao County in Aba Prefecture.

Adjectives in Qiang (2004)
Randy J. LaPolla Chenglong Huang: Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by 70,000-80,000 people in Northern Sichuan Province, China, classified as being in the Qiang or Tibetan nationality by the Chinese government. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent-marking morphology.

The copula and existential verbs in Qiang (2007)
Randy J. LaPolla Chenglong Huang: This paper discusses the copula and existential verb constructions in Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Sichuan, China.

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