Nominalization and focus constructions in some Kiranti languages
It is well-known that in many if not most Sino-Tibetan languages relative clause and attribute/genitive markers are identical with nominalization devices and that sentences bearing such markers can also function as independent utterances (cf. Matisoff 1972, Kölver 1977, DeLancey 1989, Genetti 1992, Ebert 1994, Bickel 1995, Noonan 1997, etc.). This morphological convergence of syntactic functions, which we may dub the ‘Standard Sino-Tibetan Nominalization’ (SSTN) pattern, is particularly prominent in some languages spoken in the eastern and southeastern part of the Kirant because these languages not only feature prenominal relative clauses, but also allow, albeit as a minor type, internally headed constructions.
| Author: | Balthasar Bickel |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160449 |
| URL: | http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/focnom99.pdf |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 10.08.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Kiranti; Sinotibetische Sprachen |
| Source: | http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/focnom99.pdf ; (in:) Yadava, Yogendra P., Warren G. Glover: Topics in Nepalese linguistics. - Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy, 2000, S. 271 – 296 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 284845515 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology |
| Note: | Published in: Yogendra P. Yadava & Warren G. Glover [eds.], 1999. Topics in Nepalese Linguistics. Kathmandu: Royal Nepal Academy, pp. 271 – 296 |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
