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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.

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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
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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