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Hierarchical person marking in Rawang

  • Rawang (Rvwàng) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the far north of Myanmar (Burma), and is closely related to the Dulong language spoken in China. Rawang manifests a kind of hierarchical person marking on the predicate which marks first person primarily (in several different ways - suffixes, change of final consonant, vowel length - and up to five times within one verb complex), and second person indirectly with a sort of marking similar to the inverse marking found in some North American languages: it appears when there is a first person participant, but that referent is not the actor, and when the second person is a participant. This system is quite different from those that reflect semantic role (e.g. Qiang) or grammatical relations (e.g. English).

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Author:Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1158038
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:9
Source:Paper presented to the 40th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, Harbin, China, 26-29 Sept., 2007
HeBIS-PPN:24701317X
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht