Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context

van Driem, George (2013). Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context. In: Thornes, Tim; Andvik, Erik; Hyslop, Gwendolyn; Jansen, Joana (eds.) Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation. In honor of Scott DeLancey. Typological studies in language: Vol. 103 (pp. 69-81). Amsterdam: John Benjamins

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The Gongduk language is spoken in an enclave in south central Bhutan comprising several villages and hamlets in the mountains west of the Kurichu. The language occupies a distinct phylogenetic position within the Tibeto-Burman language family. The intransitive verb agrees for person and number with the subject, and the transitive shows biactantial agreement for person and number with both agent and patient. A morphological analysis has identified the individual agreement morphemes, their precise grammatical meaning and their patterns of allomorphy. The cognacy of the greater part of the desinences of the Gongduk verb with morphemes identifiable in the biactantial agreement systems of other Tibeto-Burman languages supports the view that at least a portion of such conjugational morphology must be reconstructed to the common ancestral language.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics

UniBE Contributor:

van Driem, George

Subjects:

400 Language > 410 Linguistics

ISBN:

978-90-272-0684-8, 978-90-272-7197-6

Series:

Typological studies in language

Publisher:

John Benjamins

Language:

English

Submitter:

George van Driem

Date Deposited:

11 Apr 2014 15:52

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:31

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.46255

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/46255

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