Tibetan *-as > -os

Hill, Nathan W.

Abstract

Both Jacques (2010) and Zeisler (2015) propose explanations for the synchronically unexpected past zos of the Tibetan verb 'eat'. After evaluating their proposals, this essay suggests that zos is the regular outcome of a sound change *as > -os, the results of which were erased through analogy in almost all other verbs.

Citation

Hill, N. W. (2016). Tibetan *-as > -os. International journal of diachronic linguistics and linguistic reconstruction, 12, 163-173

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 25, 2016
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 29, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 29, 2016
• Print ISSN: 1614-5291
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 163-173
• Additional Information: References : Beyer, Stephen (1992). The Classical Tibetan language. New York: State University of New York. Chandra, Lokesh, ed. (1973). “Rig gnas cha ba sgra rig pa / sñan ṅag / sdabs sbyar / zlos gar / mṅon brjod / brdaḥ gsar rñiṅ gi khyad par rnams las byuṅ baḥi miṅ gi graṅs.” The Collected works of Longdol Lama. New Delhi : International Academy of Indian culture. ba, 1-16. Clackson, James (2007). Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dagyab, Loden Sherab (1966). Bod brdaḥi tshig mdzod. Dharamsala: Dagyab. Dge bśes chos kyi grags pa (1957). Brda dag miṅ tshig gsal ba. Beijing: Nationalities Publishing House. Eimer, Helmut, ed. (1983). Rab tu 'byuṅ ba'i gži: die tibetische Übersetzung des Pravrajyāvastu im Vinaya der Mūlasarvāstivādins. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. Gong Hwang-cherng. 2002[1995]. "The System of Finals in Proto-Sino-Tibetan". The Ancestry of the Chinese Language. William S. Y. Wang, ed. (Journal of Chinese linguistics. Monograph series 8) Berkeley: Project on Linguistic Analysis, University of California: 41-92. (reprinted in:) 漢藏語硏究論文集 Collected Papers on Sino-Tibetan Linguistics. Taipei: 中央硏究院語言學硏究所籌備處, 79-124. Hill, Nathan W. (2010). A Lexicon of Tibetan Verb Stems as Reported by the Grammatical Tradition. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Hill, Nathan W. (2011). “An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Third Series) 21.4: 441-457. Hill, Nathan W. (2014). “Sino-Tibetan: Part 2 Tibetan.” Lieber, Rochelle and Štekauer, Pavol, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 620-630. Hofinger, Marcel, ed. (1982-1990). Le congrès du lac Anavatapta. Vies de saints bouddhiques. Extraits du Vinaya des Mūlasarvāstivādin, Bhaiṣajyavastu. 2 tomes. Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. Hyslop, Gwendolyn (2011). A grammar of Kurtöp. PhD dissertation. University of Oregon. Ishihama Yumiko and Fukuda Yōichi, ed. (1989). A New critical edition of the Mahāvyutpatti: Sanskrit-Tibetan-Mongolian dictionary of Buddhist terminology. Tokyo: Toyo Bunko. Jacques, Guillaume (2010). “A possible trace of verb agreement in Tibetan”. Himalayan Linguistics 9.1: 41-49. LaPolla, Randy J. (2012). “Comments on methodology and evidence in Sino-Tibetan comparative linguistics.” Language and Linguistics 13.1: 117-132. Meillet, Antoine (1925). La méthode comparative en linguistique historique. Oslo: H. Aschehoug & co. Nobel, Johannes, ed. (1944). Suvarnaprabhāsottamasūtra. Das Goldglanz-Sūtra: ein Sanskrittext des Mahāyāna-Buddhismus. Band 1: Tibetische Übersetzung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. Sagart, Laurent (2014). “A Note on Tibeto-Burman Bone Words and Chinese Pitch-pipes.” Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text. Richard VanNess Simmons and Newell Ann Van Auken, eds. Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. 179-183 Sakaki Ryōzaburō 榊亮三郎 (1916). 梵藏漢和四譯對校飜譯名義大集 Bon-Zō-Kan-Wa yon'yaku taikō hon'yaku myōgi taishū. Kyoto: 眞言宗京都大學 Shingonshū Kyōto Daigaku. Schneider, Johannes, ed. (1993). Der Lobpreis der Vorzüglichkeit des Buddha. Bonn: Indica et Tibetica Verlag. Simon, Walter (1941). “Certain Tibetan suffixes and their combinations.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 5: 372-391. Snellgrove, David L. (1959). The Hevajra Tantra: a critical study. London: Oxford University Press. Tenzin Namdak, ed. (1965). Ḥdus pa rin po cheḥi rgyud gzer mig. New Delhi. Tenzin Namdak. Tsan chung (1979). Dag yig gsar sgrigs. Xining: mtsho sṅon mi rigs dpe skrun khaṅ. Vogel, Claus, ed. (1965). Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā; the first five chapters of its Tibetan version. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner. Vidyābhūṣaṇa, Satis Chandra, ed. (1911). Amarakoṣa and its Tibetan translation: 'Chi med mdzod. Calcutta: Asiatic society. Zeisler, Bettina (2002). “The development of temporal coding in Tibetan: some suggestions for a functional internal reconstruction. (1): Unexpected use of the 'imperative' stem in Old Tibetan and Themchen (Amdo Tibetan).” Henk Blezer, ed., Tibet, Past and Present. PIATS 2000: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. Leiden: Brill, 441-453. Zeisler, Bettina (2015). “Eat and drink – if you can! A language internal explanation for the ‘irregular’ paradigm of Tibetan za, zos, zo ‘eat’.” Himalayan Linguistics 14.1: 34-62. Zhang Yisun (1985). Bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.