'Anti-ergative' marking in Tibeto-Burman
Using arguments based on the data on verb agreement (pronominalization) in Tibeto-Burman (TB), LaPolla 1989 (see also LaPolla 1992) claims that Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) should be reconstructed as a language with no inflectional morphology. In that paper it is argued that the PTB system of grammatic...
Main Author: | LaPolla, Randy J. |
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Other Authors: | Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179304 |
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