Person marking in Longxi Qiang

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Studies in Language Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI:10.1075/sl.22032.zhe

Wuxi Zheng

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Abstract

In Longxi Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language, the verb agreement system is not marking a syntactic function or semantic role. Previous studies of the Qiang language have argued that person markings reflect the person and number of the agent. My analysis based on a large amount of natural data, however, reveals several different uses of person marking. First, person marking does not always agree with the agent. It can also be used to mark non-agent, such as the possessor, recipient, beneficiary, or patient. Second, the person markings in imperatives differ from those in non-imperatives. Finally, person marking may be omitted in certain contexts.

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龙溪羌人标

在藏缅语龙溪羌语中，动词的一致系统既不标示句法功能，也不标示语义角色。以前对羌语的研究认为，人的标记反映了代理人的人和数字。然而，我基于大量自然数据的分析揭示了几种不同的人物标记用法。首先，人的标记并不总是与代理一致。它也可用于标记非代理人，如所有人、接受者、受益人或患者。第二，祈使句中的人称标记与非祈使句中的不同。最后，在某些上下文中可以省略人物标记。

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期刊介绍： Studies in Language provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. Special emphasis is placed on works which contribute to the development of discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological theory and which explore the application of empirical methodology to the analysis of grammar.