30.3503, Books: Karen Sgaw Morphology: van Schie

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:35:49
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Karen Sgaw Morphology: van Schie

 


Title: Karen Sgaw Morphology 
Subtitle: Expressing grammatical relations in Karen Sgaw 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 90  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSASL-90-Karen-Sgaw-Morphology/en 


Author: Anne van Schie

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862889853 Pages: 94 Price: Europe EURO 60.80


Abstract:

The aim of this study is to answer the research question “what is the nature
of the Karen Sgaw morphology?”. Karen Sgaw is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken
by around 2 million people in the border regions of Burma and Thailand. The
language is fairly undescribed and the available sources contradict each other
on the topic of morphosyntax. The current study provides a literature overview
of the Karen Sgaw morphology, as well as a field work study of the
morphosyntax. Data is collected by recording the speech of a native speaker of
Karen Sgaw. Analysis of the data shows that Karen Sgaw appears to be a
language that heavily relies on combining lexical roots to express grammatical
relations. The main morphological process is compounding, of which the
occurrent mechanisms of reduplication and serialization may be subtypes. Some
elements have grammaticalized into different stages to serve an almost
inflectional or derivational function. The most striking finding is what seems
to be noun serialization, which is still barely documented as a linguistic
phenomenon.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Karen, S'gaw (ksw)


Written In: English  (eng)

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