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rarum 119

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rarum 119: “conjunct vs. disjunct” system of (bound) person marking, with the conjunct form referring to the speaker in statements and the addressee in questions, and the disjunct form referring to everything else (addressee in statements, speaker in questions (where this makes sense), non-SAP in statements and questions)

Where found
Awa Pit, Tsafiki (Barbacoan); Newar, Lhasa-Tibetan, Lhomi (Tibeto-Burman)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
categories and their domains: person, number
Keywords
personal pronouns, person
Type
rarum
Universals violated
none
Source
Hale, Austin (1980). Person markers: Finite conjunct and disjunct verb forms in Newari. In Ron Trail (ed.), Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics No. 7, 95-106. (Pacific Linguistics, A53.) Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
DeLancey, Scott (1992). The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct pattern in Tibeto-Burman. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 25: 39-62.
Bickel, Balthasar (2000). Person and evidence in Himalayan languages. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 23: 1-12.
Bickel, Balthasar & Johanna Nichols, in press. Inflectional morphology. In Timothy Shopen (ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description. 2nd, revised edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, §8.1.2.
Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2000). Conjunct/disjunct marking in Awa Pit. Unpublished, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, LaTrobe University, Melbourne.