PROF Nathan Hill nh36@soas.ac.uk
Professor Tibetan&Historical Linguistics
Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan
Hill, Nathan W.
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Abstract
The verbs གསོལ་ gsol `request' and གནང་ gnaṅ `agree, grant', because of theircomplementary semantics and parallel syntax, provide a convenient windowthrough which to caste light on the two forms of subordinate clausesthat they both govern, namely infinitives and terminative verbal nouns.
Citation
Hill, N. W. (2023). Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan. Himalayan linguistics, 21(1), 29-39. https://doi.org/10.5070/H921156970
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 10, 2023 |
Publication Date | Mar 12, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Mar 13, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 13, 2023 |
Journal | Himalayan Linguistics |
Electronic ISSN | 1544-7502 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 29-39 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.5070/H921156970 |
Keywords | Old Tibetan, switch reference, subordination |
Publisher URL | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bq059cw |
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