Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo: Historical origins and functional motivation

Post, Mark William (2013). Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo: Historical origins and functional motivation. In: Hyslop, Gwendolyn; Jansen, Joana; Thornes, Timothy; Andvik, Erik (eds.) Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In honor of Scott DeLancey. Typological Studies in Language: Vol. 103 (pp. 107-130). Amsterdam: John Benjamins 10.1075/tsl.103

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Scott DeLancey’s analysis of person-sensitive TAME marking in Lhasa Tibetan – “a.k.a. conjunct-disjunct marking” or “egophoricity” – has stimulated considerable discussion and debate, particularly as previously little-known languages of the Tibeto-Burman area, as well as outside it, have come to be described, and a wider range of functional factors have been taken into account. This chapter is intended as a contribution to this discussion, by presenting the first detailed analysis of person-sensitive TAME marking in a language of the Tani subgroup of Tibeto-Burman, namely Galo. Like Tournadre (2008), I find that person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo is not a grammaticalized index of person (“agreement”) nor of cross-clause subject continuity, but is instead a semantic index of an assertor’s knowledge state. Unlike in more westerly Tibeto-Burman languages, however, different construals of agency and/or volition do not seem to be factors in the Galo system. Thus, there are both similarities and differences underlying systems of person-sensitive TAME marking in different Tibeto-Burman languages; this suggests that further research - particularly, employing a diachronic perspective when possible - will be required before we can confidently characterize person-sensitive TAME marking from a pan-Tibeto-Burman (or broader) cross-linguistic perspective.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

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

UniBE Contributor:

Post, Mark William

Subjects:

400 Language > 410 Linguistics

ISBN:

978-90-272-0684-8

Series:

Typological Studies in Language

Publisher:

John Benjamins

Language:

English

Submitter:

Mark William Post

Date Deposited:

06 Mar 2014 17:25

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:28

Publisher DOI:

10.1075/tsl.103

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.42441

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/42441

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