Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology
This article focuses on the nominal postpositions used for marking the agent. the instrument, the genitive, the definite, the locative, the ablative, the dative and the comitative in Baima, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the south-west of the People's Republic of China. Taking previous cla...
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| description | This article focuses on the nominal postpositions used for marking the agent. the instrument, the genitive, the definite, the locative, the ablative, the dative and the comitative in Baima, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the south-west of the People's Republic of China.
Taking previous classifications of Baima nominal postpositions (Nishida and Sun 1990: San 2003; Huang and Zhang 1995) as the starting point, I comment on the disputed issues in these analyses, propose a new summary of nominal postpositions in my data. argue for isomorphism of some postpositions and discuss their etymology. I demonstrate that Baima nominal postpositions are etymologically heterogeneous. some being cognate to their Classical Tibetan counterparts. some being of possibly Qiangic provenance, while others being of yet unclear origin. The discussion is based on a corpus of Baima stories collected in 2003-2004, of which one is appended to the article. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1779552024-06-05T04:41:49Z Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology Chirkova, Katia Leiden University Arts and Humanities Tibeto-Burman Baima This article focuses on the nominal postpositions used for marking the agent. the instrument, the genitive, the definite, the locative, the ablative, the dative and the comitative in Baima, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the south-west of the People's Republic of China. Taking previous classifications of Baima nominal postpositions (Nishida and Sun 1990: San 2003; Huang and Zhang 1995) as the starting point, I comment on the disputed issues in these analyses, propose a new summary of nominal postpositions in my data. argue for isomorphism of some postpositions and discuss their etymology. I demonstrate that Baima nominal postpositions are etymologically heterogeneous. some being cognate to their Classical Tibetan counterparts. some being of possibly Qiangic provenance, while others being of yet unclear origin. The discussion is based on a corpus of Baima stories collected in 2003-2004, of which one is appended to the article. Published version 2024-06-05T04:41:49Z 2024-06-05T04:41:49Z 2005 Journal Article Chirkova, K. (2005). Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 28(2), 1-41. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.28.2.01 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177955 10.32655/LTBA.28.2.01 2 28 1 41 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2005 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Tibeto-Burman Baima Chirkova, Katia Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology |
| title | Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology |
| title_full | Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology |
| title_fullStr | Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology |
| title_short | Báimǎ nominal postpositions and their etymology |
| title_sort | baima nominal postpositions and their etymology |
| topic | Arts and Humanities Tibeto-Burman Baima |
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