TY - JOUR A1 - LaPolla, Randy J. T1 - On the dating and nature of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman T2 - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies N2 - This paper is part of an ongoing investigation into the nature of grammatical relations in the Sino-Tibetan language family. The ultimate goal of this investigation is to develop a hypothesis on the typological nature of word order and grammatical relations in the mother language which gave rise to all of the many languages within the Sino Tibetan language family. As the verb agreement (pronominalization) systems of Tibeto-Burman have been said to be a type of ergative marking, and to have been a part of Proto-Tibeto-Burman grammatical relations, the questions of the dating and nature of the agreement systems in Tibeto-Burman are relevant to the discussion of the nature of grammatical relations in Proto-Sino-Tibetan. KW - Syntaktische Kongruenz KW - Semantische Kongruenz KW - Proto-Tibetobirmanisch Y1 - 2015 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37854 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-378545 UR - http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/papers/LaPolla_1992_On_the_Dating_and_Nature_of_Verb_Agreement_in_Tibeto_Burman.pdf SN - 0041-977X VL - 55 IS - 2 SP - 298 EP - 315 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER -