A Note on Voicing Alternation in the Tibetan Verbal System

Hill, Nathan W.

Abstract

A recent paper on the prehistory of the Tibetan verbal system by Guillaume Jacques (2012), in keeping with many previous authorities, presents Tibetan verbs as occurring in pairs, with a voiced intransitive and a voice-alternating transitive member. However, as noticed by Uray, Tibetan verbs occur in triplets with no relationship between voicing and transitivity.

Citation

Hill, N. W. (2014). A Note on Voicing Alternation in the Tibetan Verbal System. Transactions of the Philological Society, 112(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12006

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Mar 1, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 12, 2025
• Journal: Transactions of the Philological Society
• Print ISSN: 0079-1636
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-968X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12006
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