The Thulung Rai verbal system : An account of verb stem alternation

Aimée Lahaussois (1)

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Thulung Rai, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Eastern Nepal, has complex verbal morphology, with verb endings encoding agent and patient person and number in transitive scenarios. In addition to this, a large number of verbs alternate between several stems, and the stem selection criteria are initially elusive. Inspired by work by Boyd Michailovsky, who proposes morphophonological accounts for the verb stem alternation in related Dumi Rai, I propose an analysis of the Thulung verbal system and its verb stem alternation.

Mots clés: Tibeto-Burman; verbal system; verb stem alternation; morphosyntax; Thulung Rai

Domaines: Linguistique

Aimée Lahaussois. The Thulung Rai verbal system : An account of verb stem alternation. Cahiers de linguistique - Asie Orientale, 2011, 40 (2), pp.189-224. ⟨halshs-00735271⟩