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Conference Paper: A note on variation in the use of the ergative in Bumthang
| Title | A note on variation in the use of the ergative in Bumthang |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2019 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN). |
| Citation | 40th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN), Kirtipur, Nepal, 26-27 November 2019 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Bumthang, a language of central Bhutan, participates in many of the Himalayan areal norms with respect to case marking, including an ergative case that is not categorial in usage, and which can appear with some intransitive predicates. This talk reports on new work based on judgement tasks and a corpus derived from naturalistic recordings. We first review the use of the ergative case in Ura dialect of Bumthang which relies heavily on semantics, pragmatics, as well as syntax to understand its usage.
In this presentation we examine the use of ergative case in texts, examining both actual occurrences, and possible occurrences, to determine which discourse factors are also relevant in addition to the sentence-internal factors, examining both quantitative and qualitative effects on the appearance and use of case marking. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/304583 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Donohue, C | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Donohue, M | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-29T03:07:53Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-29T03:07:53Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | 40th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN), Kirtipur, Nepal, 26-27 November 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/304583 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Bumthang, a language of central Bhutan, participates in many of the Himalayan areal norms with respect to case marking, including an ergative case that is not categorial in usage, and which can appear with some intransitive predicates. This talk reports on new work based on judgement tasks and a corpus derived from naturalistic recordings. We first review the use of the ergative case in Ura dialect of Bumthang which relies heavily on semantics, pragmatics, as well as syntax to understand its usage. In this presentation we examine the use of ergative case in texts, examining both actual occurrences, and possible occurrences, to determine which discourse factors are also relevant in addition to the sentence-internal factors, examining both quantitative and qualitative effects on the appearance and use of case marking. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Linguistic Society of Nepal (LSN). | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal | - |
| dc.title | A note on variation in the use of the ergative in Bumthang | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Donohue, C: donohue@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Donohue, C=rp01762 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 700003982 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | Kirtipur, Nepal | - |