Betrayal through obedience: on the history of the unusual inflectional chain in Siyuewu Khroskyabs

IF 1.7 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Linguistic Typology Pub Date : 2020-05-01 DOI:10.1515/lingty-2021-2075
Yunfan Lai
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Abstract This paper focuses on the verbal inflection chain of Siyuewu Khroskyabs, a Gyalrongic language (Trans-Himalayan). Siyuewu Khroskyabs goes against two general typological tendencies: first, as an SOV language, it shows an overwhelming preference for prefixes, which is rarely reported typologically; second, the inflectional prefixes in the outer slots are older than those in the inner slots, which is the reverse case of most languages. In this paper, I will first identify distinct historical layers within the inflectional prefixes, and then focus on two of the prefixes, də- ‘even’ and ɕə- ‘q’ whose evolutionary pathways are relatively clear. The essential part of the hypotheses is that the prefixes originate from enclitics which could be attached to the end of a preverbal chain, originally loosely attached to the verb stem. The preverbal chain later became tightly attached to the verbal stem and eventually became a part of it as a chain of prefixes. As a result, the original enclitics are reanalysed as prefixes. The integration of preverbal morphemes is responsible for the prefixing preference in Modern Siyuewu Khroskyabs. However, despite this superficial prefixing preference, Siyuewu Khroskyabs underlyingly favours postposed morphemes. By following the general suffixing tendency, this language finally managed to create a typologically rare, overwhelmingly prefixing verbal template.
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服从的背叛:论《四月娥》中不寻常的屈折链的历史
摘要:本文主要研究喜马拉雅语四越语的词形变化链。四越语违背了两大类型学倾向:第一,作为一种SOV语言,它对前缀有压倒性的偏好,这在类型学上很少有报道;其次,外部槽的屈折前缀比内部槽的屈折前缀更古老,这与大多数语言的情况相反。在本文中,我将首先识别屈折前缀中不同的历史层次,然后重点关注其中两个前缀,d æ - ' even '和k æ - ' q ',它们的进化途径相对清晰。这些假设的基本部分是,前缀起源于词尾,词尾可以附着在前语链的末端,最初松散地附着在动词词干上。前语链后来紧紧地附着在词干上,最终成为词干的一部分,形成前缀链。因此,原始的词缀被重新分析为前缀。语前语素的整合是现代四月五语前缀偏好的主要原因。然而,尽管有这种表面上的前缀偏好,但四月五赫洛斯基布实际上更喜欢后置语素。通过遵循一般的后缀趋势,这种语言最终创造了一种类型学上罕见的、压倒性的前缀语言模板。
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期刊介绍: Linguistic Typology provides a forum for all work of relevance to the study of language typology and cross-linguistic variation. It welcomes work taking a typological perspective on all domains of the structure of spoken and signed languages, including historical change, language processing, and sociolinguistics. Diverse descriptive and theoretical frameworks are welcomed so long as they have a clear bearing on the study of cross-linguistic variation. We welcome cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of linguistic diversity, as well as work dealing with just one or a few languages, as long as it is typologically informed and typologically and theoretically relevant, and contains new empirical evidence.
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