The Singpho agentive - functions and meanings
This paper examines the Singpho noun phrase particle i, which functions both as a marker of agentive and also as an adverbial particle, marking locationals, temporals and causals. Based on a careful examination of our text corpus, the distribution of the agentive use of this particle, which is...
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| author | Morey, Stephen |
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| description | This paper examines the Singpho noun phrase particle i, which functions
both as a marker of agentive and also as an adverbial particle, marking locationals,
temporals and causals. Based on a careful examination of our text corpus, the
distribution of the agentive use of this particle, which is not obligatory, is compared
with that of the obligatory anti-agentive, that marks animate patients,
recipients/beneficiaries and experiencers. Its use is found to only weakly correlate
with either the transitivity of the verb or the definiteness of the agent referent, being
slightly more likely to be employed with verbs of stronger transitivity and agents of
less definiteness. It is however very frequently employed with speech act verbs. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1776472024-05-29T08:08:27Z The Singpho agentive - functions and meanings Morey, Stephen Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University Arts and Humanities Tibeto-Burman languages Singpho This paper examines the Singpho noun phrase particle i, which functions both as a marker of agentive and also as an adverbial particle, marking locationals, temporals and causals. Based on a careful examination of our text corpus, the distribution of the agentive use of this particle, which is not obligatory, is compared with that of the obligatory anti-agentive, that marks animate patients, recipients/beneficiaries and experiencers. Its use is found to only weakly correlate with either the transitivity of the verb or the definiteness of the agent referent, being slightly more likely to be employed with verbs of stronger transitivity and agents of less definiteness. It is however very frequently employed with speech act verbs. Published version 2024-05-29T08:08:27Z 2024-05-29T08:08:27Z 2012 Journal Article Morey, S. (2012). The Singpho agentive - functions and meanings. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 35(1), 1-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.35.1.01 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177647 10.32655/LTBA.35.1.01 1 35 1 14 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2012 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Tibeto-Burman languages Singpho Morey, Stephen The Singpho agentive - functions and meanings |
| title | The Singpho agentive - functions and meanings |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Singpho agentive - functions and meanings |
| title_short | The Singpho agentive - functions and meanings |
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| topic | Arts and Humanities Tibeto-Burman languages Singpho |
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