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).
Author: | Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND |
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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): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |