The Morphosyntactic Features and Semantics of Equative Constructions in Lalo Yi
This paper focuses on one particular aspect of Lalo Yi that is not covered in previous studies:the morphosyntactic and typological features of its equative constructions.There are three different types of equative constructions in Lalo Yi(Tibeto-Burman),whose comparative parameters are expressed in three different ways:bare adjectives,reduplicative adjectives,and derived nouns.Semantically,the equative meanings in Lalo Yi can be divided into three types:the'exact'reading,the'weak'reading and the'evaluative'reading,providing new semantic paradigms for the typological studies of semantic types of equative constructions.
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