Sep 2026· Linguistics of the TIbeto-Burman Area· Vol 49, pp. 245-297· 1 citation· 51 references
Abstract
The article revisits the causative voicing alternation attested in a restricted number of fossilised lexical pairs in various sub-branches of the Trans-Himalayan language family. I introduce linguistic facts from the Tibetic languages which have not been previously investigated and point to shortcomings in arguments previously put forward. With new data from Old Literary Tibetan, the article lends support to the devoicing hypothesis according to which causative verbs with voiceless root consonants were derived from a-causative voiced verbs through the prefix *s‑: *s+√G
acaus
> √K
caus
. By ordering linguistic facts about Tibetic historical morphology, the article demonstrates the existence of several processes of causative derivation that can be aligned chronologically, thereby helping to resolve some of the burning problems in Trans-Himalayan verb morphology. Consequently, two distinct derivational patterns are reconstructed to Proto-Trans-Himalayan: I.
acaus
√G‑ >
caus
√K‑, and II.
caus
*s‑ ⪤
acaus
*
ᴺ
‑, revealing two causative prefixes, *s
1
‑ and *s
2
‑.
Abstract This article presents the first systematic typological survey of bridging constructions in the Sino-Tibetan language family. Bridging constructions are discourse-linking devices in which material from a preceding clause is repeated or summarized at the onset of a following sentence, thereby contributing to coh...
Katia Chirkova, Hong-Di Ding, P. van Els· Linguistic Typology· 0 citations
The paper argues that developments and changes in relative-clause formation in Ukrainian since the end of the 18th c. are due to lexical variation between a relative particle, typically ščo ‘that’, with or without a resumptive pronoun, and the relative pronouns jakyj and kotryj ‘which’. This repertory of relativisers i...
Jan Fellerer· Revue des études slaves· 0 citations
Among the early Germanic languages, Gothic best preserves the two subtypes of
jō
-stem nouns, which differ only in the
nom.sg
, e.g.
bandi
‘bond’ vs.
wrakja
‘persecution’. It has been assumed since the 19th century that the distribution of the
bandi
and
wrakja
types is conditioned by weight of the nomin...
Ronald I. Kim· AMSTERDAMER BEITRÄGE ZUR ÄLT...· 0 citations
This article revisits the etymology of the Dutch third-person plural pronoun
hullie ∼ hulle
, a form of particular interest because of its presence in Afrikaans as well as in American diaspora varieties of Dutch. Although
hullie
is traditionally analyzed as a contraction of
hun
(the main third-person plural n...
Bart Jacobs· Journal Of Germanic Linguist...· 0 citations
This paper explores diachronic changes in Judeo-Spanish verb stem alternation patterns compared to Old Spanish. Relying on nearly 9000 verbal tokens from the CoDiaJE corpus, we find out that, while the ones known as L-pattern and PYTA have remained remarkably stable over the last 500 years, the N-pattern has undergone...
