Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish
The Chinese linguist Li Yongsui has described (1991) a newly discovered language called Sangkong, that evidently belongs to the "Bisoid" subgroup of Southern Loloish, close to Bisu, Phunoy, and Mpi. Aside from the intrinsic value of the new lexcial material Li provides, Sangkong has an ext...
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| description | The Chinese linguist Li Yongsui has described (1991) a newly discovered language called Sangkong, that evidently belongs to the "Bisoid" subgroup of Southern Loloish, close to Bisu, Phunoy, and Mpi. Aside from the intrinsic value of the new lexcial material Li provides, Sangkong has an extremely interesting syntactic property: a rudimentary system of "verb pronominalization", where the verb-phrase may contain either of two morphemes that refer to the person of the subject. In the case of the first person, this agreement morpheme is phonologically identical to the independent personal pronoun, na55 'I'. The etymology of the non-first person marker, ze 55 is not so transparent, though we offer a theory about its origin below. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1793922024-07-29T07:50:11Z Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish Matisoff, James A. University of California, Berkeley Arts and Humanities The Chinese linguist Li Yongsui has described (1991) a newly discovered language called Sangkong, that evidently belongs to the "Bisoid" subgroup of Southern Loloish, close to Bisu, Phunoy, and Mpi. Aside from the intrinsic value of the new lexcial material Li provides, Sangkong has an extremely interesting syntactic property: a rudimentary system of "verb pronominalization", where the verb-phrase may contain either of two morphemes that refer to the person of the subject. In the case of the first person, this agreement morpheme is phonologically identical to the independent personal pronoun, na55 'I'. The etymology of the non-first person marker, ze 55 is not so transparent, though we offer a theory about its origin below. Published version 2024-07-29T07:50:11Z 2024-07-29T07:50:11Z 1993 Journal Article Matisoff, J. A. (1993). Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 16(2), 123-142. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.16.2.07 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179392 10.32655/LTBA.16.2.07 2 16 123 142 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1993 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Arts and Humanities Matisoff, James A. Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish |
| title | Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish |
| title_full | Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish |
| title_fullStr | Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish |
| title_short | Sangkong 桑孔 of Yunnan: secondary "verb pronominalization" in Southern Loloish |
| title_sort | sangkong 桑孔 of yunnan secondary verb pronominalization in southern loloish |
| topic | Arts and Humanities |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179392 |
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