Verb agreement suffixes in Mizo-Kuki-Chin

Scott Delancey

Verb agreement suffixes in Mizo-Kuki-Chin

Scott Delancey

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Mizo-Kuki-Chin is a low-level branch of Tibeto-Bunnan, consisting of two or three dozen closely-related languages (the number will depend on what we choose to count as distinct languages). The branch is defined as a genetic unit by several phonological shifts (VanBik 2009) and important morpho syntactic innovations, in particular the grammaticalization of a morphophonemic alternation between two different stems of the verb, and the innovation of a paradigm of prefixal subject agreement on the verb. Some of the agreement prefixes resemble prefixes which occur in the mixed prefixal-suffixal verb paradigms of some Kiranti and rGyalrongic languages (DeLancey 1989, 20lla; van Driem 1993, 1997), and it is likely that the Mizo-Kuki-Chin (MKC) paradigm contains morphological material which has cognates elsewhere in TB. Nevertheless the MKC agreement paradigm is clearly a shared innovation which characterizes the MKC branch and sets it off from the rest of the family.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	North East Indian Linguistics
Editors	Gwendolyn Hyslop, Stephen Morey, Mark W Post
Place of Publication	New Delhi, India
Publisher	Foundation Books
Pages	138-150
Volume	5
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9789382264729
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
Language in Time and Space (incl Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)

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