Harmonization and disharmonization of affix ordering and basic word order

Jacques, Guillaume

doi:10.1515/lity-2013-0009

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“…Japhug, like other Gyalrongic languages, is mainly prefixing, with very few suffixes (Jacques 2013b). There are strong phonological constraints on the possible shapes of the prefixes: with the exception of a few directional prefixes of recent origin, prefixes may not contain (i) stops other than voiceless unaspirated stops (ii) consonant clusters (iii) vowels other than a, ɤ and ɯ (Jacques 2014c).…”

Section: Verbal Affixesmentioning

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From ergative to comparee marker

Jacques

2016

DIA

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International audienceThis article describes the uses of the marker kɯ in Japhug, which presents many distinct functions, including ergative, instrumental, distributive, causal linker, manner linker and comparee marker in the comparative construction. A series of grammaticalization pathways, some of which have never been documented before, are proposed to account for the polyfunctionality of this marker

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Section: Verbal Affixesmentioning

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From ergative to comparee marker

Jacques

2016

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“…Unlike most Sino-Tibetan languages, Rgyalrong languages have a complex templatic prefixal morphology (Jacques 2013b;Sun 2014) and numerous valency increasing and decreasing prefixes, including reflexive (Jacques 2010), passive, anticausative (Jacques 2012c), applicative (Jacques 2013a), antipassive (Jacques 2014a) as well as nominal incorporation (Jacques 2012d).…”

Section: The Causative Prefix Sɯ-mentioning

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The origin of the causative prefix in Rgyalrong languages and its implication for proto-Sino-Tibetan reconstruction

Jacques

2015

Folia Linguistica

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In this paper, the first detailed description of the two causative derivations in Japhug Rgyalrong is presented, based on a corpus of spontaneous speech. Two new pathways of grammaticalization are proposed. First, it is shown that the causative derives from a special type of denominal derivation. Second, a previously undocumented development from the causative to the abilitative derivation is described. Lastly, the implications of these grammaticalization hypotheses for the reconstruction of Sino-Tibetan morphology as a whole are evaluated.

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“…Japhug is a Gyalrong language (Trans-Himalayan, Gyalrongic; see Sun 2000 and Jacques & Michaud 2011 for more information on the classification of this language) spoken in Mbarkham county, Rngaba prefecture, Sichuan province (China), by less than 10000 speakers. 2 Japhug and other Gyalrongic languages are polysynthetic, with a very rich and irregular morphology, and are highly head-marking (Jacques 2013b, Sun 2014, unlike some better known Trans-Himalayan languages such as Chinese or Burmese.…”

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Similative and Equative Constructions in Japhug

Jacques¹

2018

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This paper documents equative, similative, comparative and superlative constructions on the basis of a corpus of narratives. It reveals a previously unsuspected wealth of constructions: no less than three main types of superlatives, and four types of equatives are attested, some including additional subtypes. 1 I would like to thank Graham Thurgood, Yvonne Treis, Brigitte Pakendorf and one anonymous reviewer for useful comments on this paper. Glosses follow the Leipzig glossing rules. Other abbreviations used here include: AUTO spontaneous-autobenefactive, CISLOC cislocative, FACT factual/assumptive, GENR generic, IFR inferential evidential, INV inverse, LINK linker, SENS sensory evidential, SFR sentence final particle, TRANSLOC translocative, TROP tropative. Chinese borrowings in Japhug are indicated in pinyin between chevrons. The examples are taken from a corpus that is progressively being made available on the Pangloss archive (Michailovsky et al. 2014, http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/ pangloss/corpus/list_rsc.php?lg=Japhug). This research was funded by the HimalCo project (ANR-12-CORP-0006) and is related to the research strand LR-4.11 ''Automatic Paradigm Generation and Language Description'' of the Labex EFL (funded by the ANR/CGI). 2 Previous work on this language includes a grammar (Jacques 2008), a dictionary (Jacques 2015), and a series of articles on specific grammatical topics (see for instance Jacques 2013b, 2014, 2016c).

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Harmonization and disharmonization of affix ordering and basic word order

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

From ergative to comparee marker

From ergative to comparee marker

The origin of the causative prefix in Rgyalrong languages and its implication for proto-Sino-Tibetan reconstruction

Similative and Equative Constructions in Japhug

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