Word-class-changing derivations in Rawang
- 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 (see map on back page); 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. Until government policies put a stop to the clearing of new land in 1994, the Rawang speakers still practiced slash and burn farming on the mountainsides (they still do a bit, but only on already claimed land), in conjunction with planting paddy rice near the river. They are closely related to people on the other side of the Chinese border in Yunnan classified as either Dulong or Nu(ng) (see LaPolla 2001, 2003 on the Dulong language). In this paper, I will be discussing the word-class-changing constructions 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.
Author: | Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1158043 |
URL: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Rawang_word-class-changing_derivations.pdf |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/19 |
Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2010/07/19 |
GND Keyword: | Tibetobirmanische Sprachen; Nungisch |
Page Number: | 20 |
Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Rawang_word-class-changing_derivations.pdf ; Invited paper presented to the Workshop on Word-class-changing Derivations, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Institute for Advanced Study, La |
HeBIS-PPN: | 247013706 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |