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Prosodic Typology and the Morphological Structure of the Verb in Tibeto-Burman

Scott Delancey

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    Abstract

    In the "pronominalized" languages of Nepal and the rGyalrongic languages of western China verb agreement is part of the verb word. In languages of the far eastern Himalayas and North East India, agreement and tense/aspect occur in a separate word. This correlates with prosodic structure: trochaic in Kiranti and Central Himalayan versus iambic in the NEI languages.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)36-41
    JournalNepalese Linguistics
    Volume29
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Linguistics

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