Clause linking in Japhug

Guillaume Jacques (1)

1 CRLAO - Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale

This paper presents a detailed description of clause linking in Japhug, based on a corpus of traditional narratives and conversations. It follows the methodology used in Dixon and Aikhenvald's (2009) collective book on this topic, to ease crosslinguistic comparisons. Although Japhug has a very rich system of converbs, there is not a single meaning that requires a non-finite form: all subtypes of clause linking can be expressed exclusively with finite verb forms, and these indeed predominate in our corpus.

Mots clés: Clause linking; Conditional; Counterfactual; Purposive; Tense; Relative time

Domaines: Linguistique

Guillaume Jacques. Clause linking in Japhug. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2014, 37 (2), pp.264-328. ⟨10.1075/ltba.37.2.05jac⟩. ⟨halshs-01244873⟩