The Thulung Rai verbal system : An account of verb stem alternation

Authors :: Aimée Lahaussois
HTL - Histoire des Théories Linguistiques - UMR 7597 (HTL)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Lazcano, Elisabeth
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :: Cahiers de linguistique-Asie Orientale, Cahiers de linguistique-Asie Orientale, CRLAO, 2011, 40 (2), pp.189-224, HAL
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: HAL CCSD, 2011.
Abstract: International audience; Thulung Rai, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Eastern Nepal, has complex verbal morphology, with verb endings encoding agent and patient person and number in transitive scenarios. In addition to this, a large number of verbs alternate between several stems, and the stem selection criteria are initially elusive. Inspired by work by Boyd Michailovsky, who proposes morphophonological accounts for the verb stem alternation in related Dumi Rai, I propose an analysis of the Thulung verbal system and its verb stem alternation.

Subjects :: Thulung Rai
verbal system
verb stem alternation
[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
[SHS.LANGUE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Tibeto-Burman
morphosyntax

Language :: English
ISSN :: 01533320 and 19606028
Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Cahiers de linguistique-Asie Orientale, Cahiers de linguistique-Asie Orientale, CRLAO, 2011, 40 (2), pp.189-224, HAL
Accession number :: edsair.dedup.wf.001..ea19391b644b51ec4d379786bb368272

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