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- Title
The 'Adjective' in Tibeto-Burman: A Case of the Mising Language.
- Authors
Doley, Sarat Kumar
- Abstract
The aim of the paper is to describe the form and distribution of Mising adjectives and adjectivals in their modificational and predicational functions. 'Adjective' refers to "terms which describe property concepts" (Dixon 1997). The term 'adjectival' is used because, in the Tibeto-Burman languages, words which describe property concepts are frequently derived from other word categories -- primarily from verbs. Moreover it has been argued that Tibeto-Burman languages frequently do not support an independent category of adjectives and it is likely that they were not part of the proto-language (Noonan 1997). Thus this analysis can be brought to bear on the question of whether adjectives are a distinct and independent category in Tibeto-Burman and whether or not are they re-constructible to the proto-language.
- Subjects
TIBETO-Burman peoples; ABOR language; THINGS (Law); PROPERTY law reform; POSSESSION (Law)
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 8, p207
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article