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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">thanks for your valuable input. It allows me to
specify what I’m interested <a>in</a></span><span class="gmail-MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size:8pt"><a class="gmail-msocomanchor" id="gmail-_anchor_1" href="#_msocom_1" name="_msoanchor_1"></a><span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">.
In the Written Tibetan examples presented in my previous email, as well as in the
following example from modern Central Tibetan,<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">sem <span> </span>kjo-wa-laa<span></span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">-<i>la(a)</i> points to a clear manifestation or a great
example of the property denoted by the nominalized verb.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Which is why I think ‘ostensive’ might be a good label
– While in ostensive definitions, one defines something by pointing to a good
example, Tibetan -<i>la</i> points to a good or even great example of what one
is talking about<a>.</a></span><span class="gmail-MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size:8pt"><a class="gmail-msocomanchor" id="gmail-_anchor_2" href="#_msocom_2" name="_msoanchor_2"></a><span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">What distinguishes the ‘ostensive’ use of Tibetan -<i>la</i>
from most of the uses of goal cases you mentioned is that this -<i>la</i> here could
be analyzed as finite, as it completes a sentence. While pointing to a state of
affairs exemplifying the property denoted by the nominalized verb, -<i>la</i> also implies that this state of affairs currently applies, or is at least
currently experienced.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Come to think of it, you could also analyze this use
of the Tibetan goal case as an instance of insubordination. For instance, you
could assume that someone using it in this way actually means ‘look at (the
property denoted by the nominalized verb)!’ However, even if we can think of such
a matrix <a>sentence</a></span><span class="gmail-MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size:8pt"><a class="gmail-msocomanchor" id="gmail-_anchor_3" href="#_msocom_3" name="_msoanchor_3"></a><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">(‘look
at [VN-<i>la</i>]!’, or perhaps also ‘feel [VN-<i>la</i>]!’ or ‘consider [VN-<i>la</i>]!’)
as being elided here, I would not assume that the meaning of the ostensive
construction <i>equals</i> that facilitated by any of these matrix sentences.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">In short, I’m actually looking for cross-linguistic parallels for the <i>finite</i> or <i>predicative</i> use
of a goal case.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">Best,<span></span></span></p>
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