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The Person Agreement System Of Wobzi Lavrung (Rgyalrongic, Tibeto‐Burman)
Author(s) -
Lai Yunfan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.12051
Subject(s) - transitive relation , agreement , linguistics , hierarchy , terminology , documentation , computer science , natural language processing , history , psychology , mathematics , programming language , philosophy , political science , combinatorics , law
This article offers a description of the person agreement system of Wobzi Lavrung, a Tibeto‐Burman language spoken in Sichuan, China. The Lavrung language is still imperfectly described, and the aim of this paper is to contribute to the documentation of one of its dialects. The analysis follows the terminology proposed in Dryer (1986), Haspelmath (2005), Zuñiga (2006), and Malchukov et al. (2010). We discuss the inflectional affixes, the empathy hierarchy and the different types of transitive constructions in the language. Furthermore, the system under analysis is compared to related languages such as Rgyalrong and Rta'u.