DZONGKHA-ENGLISH

On the Structure of Nominal Phrases in Dzongkha

By Gelles B.D.

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dzongkha-english
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Linguistics Foreign
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2017-08-07 07:01:42
Языки и языкознание;Дзонг-кэ

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San Diego State University, San Diego, 2010, 44 p.Диссертация по синтаксису языка дзонг-кэ.Very little is known about the syntactic structure of Dzongkha, the national languageof Bhutan. Furthermore, no published work has attempted to account for the structure of thisvulnerable language using a theory of syntax. The purpose of this paper is to document thesyntactic structure of nominal phrases in Dzongkha, focusing on the isolated nominal phrase(though discourse situations do arise and are addressed). Drawing on information related tothe placement in the phrase, what can and cannot co-occur, as well as the semantic scope ofthe different modifiers, this paper analyzes the structural hierarchy using the MinimalistProgram as the syntactic theory of choice. All the data used has been collected from a singlenative speaker of Dzongkha who was born and raised in western Bhutan. Because discourseas well as sentential placement of nominal phrases is only briefly addressed, further researchis needed to clarify how these structures fit into the larger picture of a sentence as well as adiscourse.

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