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- Title
The origin of the causative prefix in Rgyalrong languages and its implication for proto-Sino-Tibetan reconstruction.
- Authors
Jacques, Guillaume
- Abstract
In this paper, the first detailed description of the two causative derivations in Japhug Rgyalrong is presented, based on a corpus of spontaneous speech. Two new pathways of grammaticalization are proposed. First, it is shown that the causative derives from a special type of denominal derivation. Second, a previously undocumented development from the causative to the abilitative derivation is described. Lastly, the implications of these grammaticalization hypotheses for the reconstruction of Sino-Tibetan morphology as a whole are evaluated.
- Subjects
SINO-Tibetan languages; CAUSATIVE (Linguistics); SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); CHABAO dialect; GRAMMATICALIZATION; MORPHOLOGY (Grammar)
- Publication
Folia Linguistica, 2015, Vol 36, p165
- ISSN
0165-4004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/flih-2015-0002