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Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Gender in Khasian

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2020
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Published version

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Ring, H. (2020). Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Gender in Khasian. In M. Alves, M. Jenny, & P. Sidwell (Eds.), Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective (pp. 107–134). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425606_006

Abstract

Abstract

Abstract

Verb-initial order is reported for less than 9% of the 1,377 languages in the WALS word order database (Dryer 2013). This makes such order somewhat unusual among languages of the world, and leads us to question how verb-initial order develops or is lost diachronically. Many of the Khasian varieties prefer verb-initial clauses, a feature they share with Nicobarese lects but not with the rest of the phylum (Munda is largely SOV and AA languages in MSEA are largely SVO in terms of the WALS typology; see Jenny et al. 2015); yet this fact

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Creators (Authors)

  • Ring, Hram

Editors

  • Alves, Mark
  • Jenny, Mathias
  • Sidwell, Paul

Title of Book

Title of Book

Title of Book
Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective

Place of Publication

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Place of Publication
Leiden

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Publisher

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107

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134

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Book Section

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Keywords

Austroasiatic Khasian Diachronic linguistics Syntax

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English

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2020-04-02

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2021-01-18

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9789004396951

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SNSF

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Grant ID
100015_176264

Project Title

Project Title

Project Title
The Development of Verb-Initial Structures Cross-linguistically: Insights from Austroasiatic

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Ring, H. (2020). Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Gender in Khasian. In M. Alves, M. Jenny, & P. Sidwell (Eds.), Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective (pp. 107–134). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425606_006

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