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Article Dans Une Revue Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area Année : 2022

Tangut verb agreement: Optional or not?

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The Tangut language is of particular importance to the field of Sino­-Tibetan Studies, notably because of its morphological conservatism, which is unexpectedly correlated with a simplification of its syllable structure, a consequence of a process Miyake (2012) called “compression”. Such conservatism is evident in the syllable qualities reconstructed, which sometimes reflect proto­ Tangut’s ancient derivational processes. Verbs also exhibit various flectional phenomena, mainly due to conversion of agreement rules and referential hierarchy rules ( Silverstein 1976 ), in a manner reminiscent of the indexation system of languages of the rGyalrongic taxon within the Qiangic family. The present paper attempts to explain the absence of indexation in the Tangut verb, a key phenomenon in the history of verb agreement analysis. First, I recall the main rules of the Tangut verb’s agreement system, as shown by Kepping (1975) and Gong (2001). Second, cases of non­agreement are analyzed. Apart from the case of non­local contexts, we see that the absence of agreement occurs in non­finite forms resulting from a dependency pattern, such as clause chaining, topic/comment context, and semantically dependent modality.

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hal-03893853 , version 1 (11-12-2022)

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Mathieu Beaudouin. Tangut verb agreement: Optional or not?. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2022, 45 (1), pp.93-109. ⟨10.1075/ltba.21008.bea⟩. ⟨hal-03893853⟩
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