On transitivity in two Tibeto-Burman languages

Randy J. LaPolla | La Trobe University

This paper presents the analyses of transitivity and questions about transitivity in two languages (Rawang and Qiang) that have been described using very different definitions of transitivity, with a view to showing that each language must be analysed on its own terms, and so the criteria used for identifying transitivity, if it is to be identified at all, might be different between languages. In the case of these two languages it is at least partly due to the two languages differing in terms of the degree of systematicity of the marking, with the Rawang marking being more systematic.

Keywords: Rawang, Transitivity, Qiang

Published online: 29 November 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.35.3.05lap

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