'Transitivity harmony' in the Rawang language of Northern Myanmar
- Rawang [...] is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by people who live in the far north of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Maeli Hka (Mali Hka) river valleys; population unknown, although Ethnologue gives 100,000. In the past they had been called ‘Nung’, or (mistakenly) ‘Hkanung’, and are considered to be a sub-group of the Kachin by the Myanmar government. They are closely related to people on the other side of the Chinese border in Yunnan classified as either Dulong or Nu (see LaPolla 2001, 2003 on the Dulong language and Sun 1988, Sun & Liu 2005 on the Anong language). In this paper, I will be discussing a particular morphological phenomenon found in Rawang, using data of the Mvtwang (Mvt River) dialect of Rawang, which is considered the most central of those dialects in Myanmar and so has become something of a standard for writing and inter-group communication.
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| Author: | Randy J. LaPolla |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1158023 |
| Parent Title (English): | Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society, University of Sydney, 2-4 July, 2008 |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/19 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/19 |
| GND Keyword: | Tibetobirmanische Sprachen; Nungisch |
| Page Number: | 6 |
| Source: | Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society, University of Sydney, 2-4 July, 2008 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 247011029 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
