A semantic study of deictic auxiliaries in Burmese
The grammaticalization of motion verbs into deictic auxiliaries is a common phenomenon in Tibeto-Burman languages. DeLancey (1985) notes that this is a cyclic process, the directive category being regularly reinvented in the Tibeto-Burman languages, and almost as regularly lost again. This paper wil...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179352 |