Journal Articles Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area Year : 2018

Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation

Relativisation en khroskyabs de Wobzi et l'intégration de la génitivisation

Yunfan Lai
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Abstract

This paper focuses on the morphosyntax as well as the semantics of relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs, a Rgyalrongic language spoken in Sichuan, China. Different strategies of relativisation are presented, especially the nominalisation strategy. Wobzi Khroskyabs exhibits an innovative relativisation strategy with the genitive marker =ji, which is rarely found in other Rgyalrongic languages. Several hypotheses are put forward to account for the evolutionary pathway from genitivisation to relativisation, showing that genitive =ji probably followed an ergative pattern to enter the relativisation of core arguments.
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halshs-01907013 , version 1 (28-10-2018)

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Yunfan Lai. Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, In press. ⟨halshs-01907013⟩
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