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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soe, Myint
Other Authors: University of Oregon
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179352