Reflexive paradigms in Khaling

Guillaume Jacques (1) , Aimée Lahaussois (2) , Dhan Bahadur Rai, (3)

1 CRLAO - Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale
2 HTL - HTL - Histoire des Théories Linguistiques - UMR 7597
3 Kirat Khaling Rai Development Association

Khaling, like other Kiranti languages, has a Reflexive / Middle suffix-si, the main function of which is to reduce the valence of verbs. The present paper describes the complex morphological alternations observed in the reflexive paradigms, and provides a detailed account of the various meanings of the-si derivation in Khaling.

Mots clés: Khaling; Kiranti; reflexive; autobenefactive; middle; antipassive; anti-causative; reciprocal

Domaines: Linguistique

Guillaume Jacques, Aimée Lahaussois, Dhan Bahadur Rai,. Reflexive paradigms in Khaling. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2016, 39 (1), pp.33-48. ⟨10.1075/ltba.39.1.02jac⟩. ⟨hal-01356782⟩