Multifunctional Patterns of Instrumental Case Markers in Dialects of Hani
Multifunctionality of instrumental case markers is a universal from cross-regional and cross-linguistic perspectives.There are variant forms of instrumental markers in many Hani sub-dialects.Based on a comprehensive investigation on these markers and related semantic markers in ten Hani sub-dialects,we use the semantic map to display the evolution path of the multifunctional forms of Hani instrumental markers,and points out that the instrumental meaning is the prototypical function of these multifunctional instrumental markers.The extension of the semantic functions of instrumental case markers reflects not only the isomorphism of the"Instrumental-Agent-Ablative"type of Tibeto-Burman languages but also the particularities developed in the course of dialect divergence.The differentiations can be mainly attributed to language users'differences in cognition and interactive strategies as well as competition in between the internal linguistic factors.
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