Ergative marking in Tibeto-Burman
- This paper presents the first results of a comprehensive project on comparative Tibeto-Burman (TB) morpho-syntax. Data on morphological forms and typological patterns were collected from one hundred fifty-one languages and dialects in the TB family. For this paper the data were surveyed for nominal 'ergative' or agentive case marking (postpositions), in an attempt to determine if it would be possible to reconstruct an ergative case marker to Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB), and in so doing learn more about the nature of grammatical organization in PTB. Ablative, instrumental, genitive, locative, and other case forms were also surveyed for possible cognacy with ergative forms, as suggested in DeLancey 1984.
| Author: | Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157910 |
| URL: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Ergative_Marking.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | New Horizons in Tibeto-Burman Morpho-syntax (Senri Ethnological Studies 41), ed. by Yoshio Nishi, James A. Matisoff, & Yasuhiko Nagano |
| Publisher: | National Museum Of Ethnology |
| Place of publication: | Osaka |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/19 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1995 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/19 |
| GND Keyword: | Tibetobirmanische Sprachen |
| Page Number: | 41 |
| First Page: | 189 |
| Last Page: | 228 |
| Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Ergative_Marking.pdf ; (in:) New Horizons in Tibeto-Burman Morpho-syntax (Senri Ethnological Studies 41), ed. by Yoshio Nishi, James A. Matisoff, & Yasuhiko Nagano. - Osaka: National Museum of Et |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 246726792 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
