Features of Syntactic Markers in Declarative Disjunctive Sentences of Tibeto-Burman Languages
In this article,we classify and analyze the declarative disjunctive sentences in twenty-nine Tibetan-Burman languages and dialects according to the positions of the syntactic markers.The doubly-marked type"G-P,G-Q"of disjunctive sentences,wherein G represents the disjunctive marker,P represents the preceding clause and Q represents the following clause,is the dominant pattern of the positions of disjunctive markers.When it comes to the singly-marked type"P-G-Q",the subtype"P-G,Q"is earlier in existence than"P,G-Q".The markers of disjunctive sentences in Tibeto-Burman languages are mostly polysyllabic words and non-cognates,which are related to semantic negation or hypothesis.The more complex the disjunctive markers are in composition,the less multifunctional they are.The disjunctive markers develop from compound forms of content morphemes into function words.The diversity of the positioning patterns of disjunctive markers is related to the word order typology of the Tibeto-Burman languages.
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