Ideophones in Japhug (Rgyalrong)

Jacques, Guillaume

doi:10.1353/anl.2013.0014

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“…The S of reflexive verbs is never marked with the ergative though semantically the S corresponds both to the agent and the patient. As in Japhug (see Jacques ), the reflexive is an intransitive derivation.…”

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The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman)

Lai

2014

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This article offers a description of the person agreement system of Wobzi Lavrung, a Tibeto‐Burman language spoken in Sichuan, China. The Lavrung language is still imperfectly described, and the aim of this paper is to contribute to the documentation of one of its dialects. The analysis follows the terminology proposed in Dryer (1986), Haspelmath (2005), Zuñiga (2006), and Malchukov et al. (2010). We discuss the inflectional affixes, the empathy hierarchy and the different types of transitive constructions in the language. Furthermore, the system under analysis is compared to related languages such as Rgyalrong and Rta'u.

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“…Jacques () also mentions similar contrastive treatments for mbi ‘give’ (Wobzi bə̂ ), k ʰ o (Wobzi kʰɑ́ ) ‘pass’ and ti ‘say’ in Japhug.…”

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The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman)

Lai

2014

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“…The direct/inverse systems of Rgyalrong languages have been described in several studies (DeLancey on Situ, Sun and Shidanluo on Tshobdun, Jacques on Japhug, and Gong on Zbu). These languages index not only the person but also the number of the two arguments in the verbal morphology, and the resulting paradigm is more complex than the pattern shown in Table .…”

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“…The presence or absence of the inverse prefix in 3→3 forms (in other words, the 3′→3 vs 3→3′ contrast) can be predicted by the following rules (Sun and Shidanluo ; Jacques ): When the agent is animate and the patient inanimate, the inverse is blocked.When the agent is inanimate and the patient animate, the inverse is required.…”

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“…Regardless of terminological preferences, Givonian text counts (in particular of referential distance and topic persistence , Givón , 10) have provided an easily reproductible and insightful basis on which to build a cross‐linguistic study of direct/inverse systems. It has been successfully applied to various languages with direct/inverse, such as Kutenai (Dryer ) and Japhug Rgyalrong (Jacques ).…”

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Direct/Inverse Systems

Jacques

Antonov

2014

Language and Linguist. Compass

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International audienceThe term ‘inverse’ has been used in the typological literature to designate a considerable variety of phenomena, which have been analyzed in several distinct frameworks. Direct– inverse systems are attested in a number of endangered languages spoken in the Americas(Algonquian, Mapudungun, Sahaptian, etc.) and the Himalayas (Sino-Tibetan).The aim of this article is to provide an overview of direct/inverse systems in a perspective as free as possible from framework-specic assumptions using the most recent data and adopting both a typological and a historical perspective. It is divided into four sections.First, we propose a definition of the canonical direct/inverse system and introduce the concepts of proximate/obviative and referential hierarchies.Second, we present examples of attested direct/inverse systems in the world’s languages by subdividing them into two main categories: near-canonical and highly non-canonical, and additionally discussing systems with hierarchical agreement but without direction (direct/inverse) marking.Third, we evaluate to what extent direct/inverse systems are correlated with other typo-logical features.Fourth, we apply a panchronic perspective on direct/inverse systems, studying their attested origin and their evolution and how the diachronic pathways can help understand the present data

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L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complexpredicates

Franco

2017

Can. J. Linguist.

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In this article, the author demonstrates that verbal compound constructions involving an ideophone and a light verb represent a widespread syntactic device in the world's languages. The author provides evidence that phono-symbolic morphemes cannot be treated as ‘bare’ direct objects in such constructions. Ideophones appearing in the light verb-adjacent position form a semantic unit with the verbal predicate, despite the fact that in some languages they can be syntacticized as (bare) nouns and appear in argumental position. Specifically, ideophones in complex predicates are part of the verbal domain with which they ‘blend’ (yielding a single predicate) through the mechanism of conflation, along the lines of Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002), and building on Ramchand (2008).

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Ideophones in Japhug (Rgyalrong)

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The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman)

The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman)

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L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complexpredicates

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