Lexical Anaphors and Pronouns in Liangmai

• Authors: Martin Everaert , Kārumūri V. Subbārāo , Wichamdinbo Mataina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses some aspects of the behavior of anaphors and pronouns in Liangmai, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. W e show that Liangmai offers a unique combination of “reflexivization strategies”. Like other languages it exhibits the strategy of reflexivizing the predicate by reduplication of an anaphoric element, but it simultaneously marks the predicate with a self-element. Two more properties of anaphoric properties of Liangmai are interesting from a cross-linguistic perspective. It shows cases of “swapping” - reordering of differently case-marked elements within the complex anaphor - and long-distance binding - allowing an anaphoric element to refer to an element that is not a co-argument.

Keywords

EN

anaphora; case agreement; doubling; long-distance binding; reflexivization

• Publisher: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
• Journal: Lingua Posnaniensis
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 41-47

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-06-17

Contributors

author

Martin Everaert

• University of U trecht, Department of L anguages, L iterature and Communication,

author

Kārumūri V. Subbārāo

• University of Hyderabad, India

author

Wichamdinbo Mataina

• Jawaharlal Nehru University, Centre of Linguistics

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/linpo-2013-0012