• Tibetan e-grade present stems

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    2026-04-02

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    Tibetan e-grade present stems, Kazushi Iwao, Ai Nishida, and Brandon Dotson, Old Tibetan Studies in Honor of Tsuguhito Takeuchi and Helga Uebach: Proceedings of the panel Old Tibetan Studies VII, Prague 2022, Tokyo, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Stud, 2026, 155-160, Nathan Hill

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    Tibetan verbs with the root vowel -a- exhibit several ablaut patterns in their stem variations. Traditionally, these stem alternations are seen as recent developments, not valuable for reconstructing the Trans-Himalayan verbal system (Coblin 1976). Some verbs retain -a- in the present (e.g., √cag break’, pres. ḫchag), others have -e- (e.g., √bya do’, pres.byed), and some -o- (e.g., √sad kill’, pres. gsod). The traditional analysis attributes present -e- to a suffix -d (*byad > byed) and present -o- to a prefix g- (*gsad > gsod). I previously rejected this explanation for presents in -o- (Hill 2019b); here I address those in -e.

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    Author: Hill, Nathan

    Other Titles: Old Tibetan Studies in Honor of Tsuguhito Takeuchi and Helga Uebach: Proceedings of the panel Old Tibetan Studies VII, Prague 2022
    Publisher: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Stud
    Type of material: Book Chapter