The prefix g- and -o- ablaut in Tibetan present verb stems

Hill, Nathan W.

Abstract

The prevailing internal reconstruction of the Classical Tibetan verbal system accounts for all ablaut phenomena as innovations triggered by erstwhile segmental affixes. The traditional account cannot be correct, because the paradigms of nine verbs show -o- in the present stem without g- and a further three verbs show g- in the present without -o-.

Citation

Hill, N. W. (2019). The prefix g- and -o- ablaut in Tibetan present verb stems. Bulletin of Chinese linguistics, 12(2), 229-236. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-01202001

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2019
• Online Publication Date: May 27, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 30, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 2, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 2, 2020
• Journal: Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics
• Print ISSN: 1933-6985
• Electronic ISSN: 2405-478X
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 229-236
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/2405478X-01202001
• Keywords: Tibetan verb; ablaut; verb morphology; Tibeto-Burman; 藏語動詞; 元音變異; 動詞形態; 藏緬語