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[Yunfan Lai]

Dear Katarzyna,

In Rgyalrongic languages, autobenefactive is marked morphologically. 

Guillaume Jacques has written about the autobenefactive prefix in Japhug (Jacques, Guillaume, 2015, The spontaneous-autobenefactive prefix in Japhug Rgyalrong, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:2, 271–291). 

You can also refer to my Wobzi Khroskyabs grammar (Lai 2017: 357-368), available here: Grammaire du khroskyabs de Wobzi - TEL (thèseshttps:// <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwid27-roJziAhWBV7wKHbRACL8QFjAAegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftel.archives-ouvertes.fr%2Ftel-01571916v2%2Fdocument&usg=AOvVaw1GG-eBnA_WDjx-m2imNuuu>tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01571916v2/document <http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01571916v2/document>.

Best,

Yunfan

> On 14 May 2019, at 10:04 PM, Katarzyna Janic <katarzyna_maria.janic at uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
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> Dear Madam/Sir,
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> I would like to post the following message:
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> Dear all,
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> In my crosslinguistic studies, I am interested in how languages code (i) auto-benefactive (or ‘self-benefactive’) events and (ii) other-benefactive events. The English pair: ‘Mary bought a book for herself’ vs. ‘Mary bought a book for Tom’ reflects this opposition.  Most languages did not develop distinct forms to signal these two grammatical meanings except for some language families spoken mainly in Asia (e.g. Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Iranian, Mongolic and in *Turkic).
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> Typically, the verbs ‘to take’ and 'to give’ serve this purpose i.e. they encode auto- and other- benefactive meanings respectively.  I am looking for some Sino-Tibetan languages that make a formal distinction in expressing these two meanings in question. I would be grateful for any references that would help me to extend my language sample.
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> The aim is to evaluate the length of self- and auto-benefactive forms to check whether they build coding asymmetry and to explain it.
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> Thank you in advance for your help,
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> Best,
> 
> Katarzyna
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