LOLO-ENGLISH

Plenty of post-verbal particles in the Nuosu Yi clause

By Walters Susan.

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Linguistics Foreign
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Лолойские языки

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Payap University, SIL International, East Asia Group. — 27 p.The Nuosu language belongs to the Northern Ngwi sub-branch of Burmese-Ngwi. The examples in this paper are from the Shengzha dialect, the dialect chosen as the basis for the Table of standard Yi language characters. I am using these characters in this paper. This study was carried out as a result of my desire to better understand Nuosu. As I studied texts and encountered spoken language, I came across a number of unglossable words. I began making lists of these unexplained particles. The number of different particles was daunting. Then a thorough search was made through the literature written about Nuosu concerning each of these particles. This, in turn, turned up even more particles that I had not yet encountered. Finally, a study of each separate particle was made, comparing its use in texts and speech with the wisdom of previous literature and current speakers. The result is this paper.

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