TY - JOUR
T1 - Differential subject marking in Azhee
AU - GERNER, Matthias
PY - 2016/5
Y1 - 2016/5
N2 - Azhee (of the Tibeto-Burman family, spoken in China) uses differential subject marking (DSM) conditioned by animacy and the potential ambiguity of subject and object. It is shown that the Azhee differential subject marker is a highly syncretic case marker, which derived from a source case, and developed into a contrastive focus marker. DSM is presented as the diachronic source of focus, rather than the other way around. In a range of publications, topic and focus have been identified to be associate functions of case markers. Furthermore, the position of Azhee is described in a typology of differential case marking motivated by the principles of markedness, faithfulness and economy.
AB - Azhee (of the Tibeto-Burman family, spoken in China) uses differential subject marking (DSM) conditioned by animacy and the potential ambiguity of subject and object. It is shown that the Azhee differential subject marker is a highly syncretic case marker, which derived from a source case, and developed into a contrastive focus marker. DSM is presented as the diachronic source of focus, rather than the other way around. In a range of publications, topic and focus have been identified to be associate functions of case markers. Furthermore, the position of Azhee is described in a typology of differential case marking motivated by the principles of markedness, faithfulness and economy.
KW - Differential Subject Marking
KW - syncretic case marker
KW - focus
KW - Azhee
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U2 - 10.1515/flin-2016-0005
DO - 10.1515/flin-2016-0005
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0165-4004
VL - 50
SP - 137
EP - 173
JO - Folia Linguistica
JF - Folia Linguistica
IS - 1
ER -