Loss of object indexation in verbal paradigms of Koĩc (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal)
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Dörte Borchers
Abstract
Koĩc ([kɔĩts]; English: Sunwar) is a Kiranti language spoken in eastern Nepal. In the past, Koĩc had a biactantial indexing system with transitive verbs indexing subjects and objects, a typical feature of Kiranti languages.1 In modern Koĩc, transitive verbs are not indexed for object. A comparison shows connections in form and function between old and new argument indexes. Now Koĩc has a system of different conjugations, and for the majority of verbs membership in a conjugation is lexically fixed.
Most speakers of Koĩc are bilingual with Nepali (Indo-Iranian), and the longstanding Nepali influence will be discussed as one possible cause of language change.
Abstract
Koĩc ([kɔĩts]; English: Sunwar) is a Kiranti language spoken in eastern Nepal. In the past, Koĩc had a biactantial indexing system with transitive verbs indexing subjects and objects, a typical feature of Kiranti languages.1 In modern Koĩc, transitive verbs are not indexed for object. A comparison shows connections in form and function between old and new argument indexes. Now Koĩc has a system of different conjugations, and for the majority of verbs membership in a conjugation is lexically fixed.
Most speakers of Koĩc are bilingual with Nepali (Indo-Iranian), and the longstanding Nepali influence will be discussed as one possible cause of language change.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Lost in Change 1
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Part I. Modelling loss: Description, theory and method
- A typological perspective on the loss of inflection* 21
- So -adj- a construction as a case of obsolescence in progress 51
- The impersonal construction in the texts of Updated Old English 75
- Corpus driven identification of lexical bundle obsolescence in Late Modern English 101
- A constructional account of the loss of the adverse avertive schema in Mandarin Chinese 131
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Part II. Motivations and explanations for loss: Language-internal and external factors
- Loss or variation? Functional load in morpho-syntax – Three case studies 161
- “The next Morning I got a Warrant for the Man and his Wife, but he was fled” 199
- On the waning of forms – A corpus-based analysis of decline and loss in adjective amplification 235
- Decline and loss in the modal domain in recent English* 261
- German so -relatives 291
- Loss of object indexation in verbal paradigms of Koĩc (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) 333
- Index 363
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Lost in Change 1
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Part I. Modelling loss: Description, theory and method
- A typological perspective on the loss of inflection* 21
- So -adj- a construction as a case of obsolescence in progress 51
- The impersonal construction in the texts of Updated Old English 75
- Corpus driven identification of lexical bundle obsolescence in Late Modern English 101
- A constructional account of the loss of the adverse avertive schema in Mandarin Chinese 131
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Part II. Motivations and explanations for loss: Language-internal and external factors
- Loss or variation? Functional load in morpho-syntax – Three case studies 161
- “The next Morning I got a Warrant for the Man and his Wife, but he was fled” 199
- On the waning of forms – A corpus-based analysis of decline and loss in adjective amplification 235
- Decline and loss in the modal domain in recent English* 261
- German so -relatives 291
- Loss of object indexation in verbal paradigms of Koĩc (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) 333
- Index 363
