Analysis and Comparison of Nominalization in Rta'u Variety of the Central Horpa in Rgyalrongic
Rgyalrongic belongs to Qiangic of the Tibeto-Burman in Sino-Tibetan family,including the three languages of Rgyalrong,Lavrung and Horpa.This paper focuses on description and analysis of the lexical nominalizing derivation and the clausal nominalization in Rta'u variety of the central Horpa,and compares them with the genetically related languages and dialects within the Rgyalrongic,tracing the historical trajectories of their evolvements and the common innovations of the nominalizing morphology and the syntactic structure of Rgyalrongic,in an attempt to construct a typological gram-mar system for Horpa and provide some critical nominalization evidences for morphological recon-struction and genus classification of the languages and the dialects in Rgyalrongic.