A Typological Study of Existential Verbs in the Naxi Language
This paper analyzes the categories,semantic features,and grammatical characteristics of existential verbs in the Naxi language and conducts a typological comparison of them with their counterparts in related languages.The Naxi language has four existential verbs,which are complementary in semantic distribution based on factors such as subject of existence(animacy),manner of existence(immobility),and place of existence(inclusion),reflecting a typical semantic segmentation model of Tibeto-Burman languages.Syntactically,these existential verbs exhibit analytic characteristics,lacking morphological inflections for tense,aspect,voice,person,and number,though they can co-occur with certain auxiliary words.The four existential verbs share highly similar conceptual structures and can all be used in expressions of existence,location,and possession.The relationships and differences among existential verbs in Sino-Tibetan languages reveal both common typological patterns and unique features,highlighting the cognitive styles of language users.
Naxi languageexistential verbstypologysemantic featuressyntactic features
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