From discourse to grammar in Tamang: topic, focus, intensifiers and subordination

Martine Mazaudon (1)

1 LACITO - Langues et civilisations à tradition orale

Study of subordination, discourse particules and the progressive integration of discourse particules in subordination markers in Tamang, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal.

Keywords: Tamang; Tibeto-Burman; Nepal; grammar and discourse; topic; focus; intensifiers

Keywords: Tibéto-Birman; grammaire et discours; topique; intensificateur

Domains: Linguistics

Martine Mazaudon. From discourse to grammar in Tamang: topic, focus, intensifiers and subordination. David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky & Graham Thurgood. Language variation: papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff, Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, pp.145-158, 2003. ⟨halshs-00188571⟩