On the change to verb-medial word order in proto-Chinese : evidence from Tibeto-Burman
- In attempting to reconstruct the morphosyntax of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, one of the most basic questions to be answered is what was the unmarked word order of the proto-language? Chinese, Bai, and Karen are verb-medial languages, while all of the Tibeto-Burman languages except for Bai and Karen have verb-final word order. lf these languages are all related, as we can assume from lexical correspondences, then either Chinese, Bai and Karen changed from verb-final to verb-medial word order, or the other Tibeto-Burman languages changed trom verb-medial to verb-final order. How we answer the question of which languages changed their word would then give us the answer to the question of word order in Proto-Sino-Tibetan.
| Author: | Randy J. LaPollaORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157973 |
| URL: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/chinesewo.pdf |
| Parent Title (German): | Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, ed. by H. Kitamura, T. Nishida, and Y. Nagano |
| Publisher: | National Museum of Ethnology |
| Place of publication: | Osaka |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2010/07/19 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1994 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2010/07/19 |
| GND Keyword: | Tibetobirmanische Sprachen; Sinotibetische Sprachen; Chinesisch; Wortstellung |
| Page Number: | 7 |
| First Page: | 98 |
| Last Page: | 104 |
| Source: | http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/chinesewo.pdf ; (in:) Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, ed. by H. Kitamura, T. Nishida, and Y. Nagano. - Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1994, S. 98-104 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 24699634X |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
