Accusative alignment in the Old Tibetan switch reference system
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Hill, Nathan?W., Accusative alignment in the Old Tibetan switch reference system, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2022Download Item:
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The use of ནས་ -nas to mark cross-clausal co-reference in Version I of the Old Tibetan
Rāmāyaṇa reveals accusative alignment in Tibetan syntax, which in turn vindicates
the notion of ‘subject’ applied to Tibetan.
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