From ergativus absolutus to topic marking in Kiranti : a typological perspective
- In many languages, clauses can be subordinated by means of case markers. For Bodic languages, a branch of Sino-Tibetan, Genetti (1986) has shown that the meaning of case markers on clauses is in most instances a natural extension of their function on nouns. A dative, for example, which marks a referential goal with a noun, signals a situational goal, i.e., a purpose, when used on a clause. Among the case markers recruited for subordination, we not only get relatively concrete cases like datives, comitatives and various types of locatives, but also core argument relators such as ergatives and accusatives. In this paper, I focus on ergative markers in one subgroup of Bodic, viz. in Kiranti languages spoken in Eastern Nepal, especially in Belhare.
Author: | Balthasar BickelORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160453 |
URL: | http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/bickel1999.pdf |
Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1999 |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2010/08/10 |
Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Contributing Corporation: | 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society |
Release Date: | 2010/08/10 |
GND Keyword: | Sinotibetische Sprachen; Kiranti |
Page Number: | 13 |
First Page: | 38 |
Last Page: | 49 |
Note: | In: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1999), 38-49 |
Source: | http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/bickel1999.pdf ; (in:) In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1999, S. 38-49 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 284848549 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 49 Andere Sprachen / 490 Andere Sprachen | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |