How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?
Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013). Others show a radically simpler verbal system more consistent with their South and Southeast Asian neighbors. The complex systems include elaborat...
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| description | Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013). Others show a radically simpler verbal system more consistent with their South and Southeast Asian neighbors. The complex systems include elaborate systems of argument indexation; most of these reflect a hierarchical indexation paradigm, which can be traced to Proto-Trans-Himalayan. This morphology has been lost in many languages, including the most familiar branches of the family such as Sinitic, Boro-Garo, Tibetic, and Lolo-Burmese, as a result of creolization under intense language contact. The archaic system is preserved fairly intact in rGyalrongic and Kiranti and with various structural reorganization in several other branches. The Kuki-Chin branch has innovated an entirely new indexation paradigm, which in some subbranches has completely replaced the original system, while in others the two paradigms coexist. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7cf9b7a118f343be83123154fb3c15712022-12-21T17:57:17ZengDartmouth College LibraryLinguistic Discovery1537-08522015-01-0113210.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.461461How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?Frenando ZúñigaCertain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013). Others show a radically simpler verbal system more consistent with their South and Southeast Asian neighbors. The complex systems include elaborate systems of argument indexation; most of these reflect a hierarchical indexation paradigm, which can be traced to Proto-Trans-Himalayan. This morphology has been lost in many languages, including the most familiar branches of the family such as Sinitic, Boro-Garo, Tibetic, and Lolo-Burmese, as a result of creolization under intense language contact. The archaic system is preserved fairly intact in rGyalrongic and Kiranti and with various structural reorganization in several other branches. The Kuki-Chin branch has innovated an entirely new indexation paradigm, which in some subbranches has completely replaced the original system, while in others the two paradigms coexist.http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.461Quechua |
| spellingShingle | Frenando Zúñiga How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan? Linguistic Discovery Quechua |
| title | How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan? |
| title_full | How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan? |
| title_fullStr | How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan? |
| title_full_unstemmed | How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan? |
| title_short | How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan? |
| title_sort | how strong is the case for contact induced grammatical restructuring in quechuan |
| topic | Quechua |
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