Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Old Tibetan"

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    • Accusative alignment in the Old Tibetan switch reference system 

      Hill, Nathan (2022)
      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.

    • Making and agreeing to requests in Old Tibetan 

      Hill, Nathan (2023)
      The verbs གསོལ་ gsol ‘request’ and གནང་ gnaṅ ‘agree, grant', because of their complementary semantics and parallel syntax, provide a convenient window through which to caste light on the two forms of subordinate clauses ...