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Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation

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Lai,  Yunfan
CALC, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Lai, Y. (2018). Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 41(2), 219-262. doi:10.1075/ltba.17015.lai.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-EC7D-9
Abstract
This paper focuses on the morphosyntax as well as the semantics of relativisation
in Wobzi Khroskyabs, a Rgyalrongic language spoken in Sichuan, China.
Different strategies of relativisation are presented, especially the nominalisation
strategy. Wobzi Khroskyabs exhibits an innovative relativisation strategy with
the genitive marker =ji, which is rarely found in other Rgyalrongic languages.
Several hypotheses are put forward to account for the evolutionary pathway
from genitivisation to relativisation, showing that genitive =ji probably followed
an ergative pattern to enter the relativisation of core arguments.