The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman

Scott DeLancey

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistics and language evolution Categorization, perception, and language

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Recent descriptive and historical work on Tibeto-Burman has shown that personal indices on the verb in the "pron- ominalized" languages generally reflect not semantic roles or grammatical relations, as in more familiar languages, but a hierarchy of person in which first and second person are always indexed in preference to third. It is shown here that in PTB and in a few modern languages this hierarchy was also reflected in a direction marking system, in which a transitive verb is morphologically marked according as the patient is higher or lower on this hierarchy than the agent.

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