Revisiting the Tangut Directional Prefix ·jij 1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20322004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shuya Zhang (0000-0002-3444-1475, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351-382 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archiv orientální (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-8699 • E-ISSN: 2787-9461 |
| Publisher | Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.47979/aror.j.92.2.351-382 |
| OpenAlex | W4403889418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Directional prefixes, prevalent in Tangut and modern Qiangic languages, play a crucial role in expressing tense-aspect-modality and spatial meanings. Tangut directional prefixes are classified as belonging to either perfective (Dir1) or optative (Dir2) paradigms, but polyfunctional prefixes have puzzled scholars. The prefix ·jij1 -, traditionally viewed as optative, has been observed since Kepping (1985) to also express the durative aspect. Drawing evidence from Tangut internal sources, in particular from an under-explored indigenous text, The Ode on Monthly Pleasures, this paper proposes the existence of a Dir1 prefix ·jij1 -, potentially related to the yod unspecified directionals found in modern Gyalrongic. The proposed Dir1 prefix ·jij1 - is homophonous with the optative (Dir2) prefix ·jij1 - and would have served as the source for the grammaticalization of the durative ·jij1 -. This work refines previous reconstructions of Tangut directional paradigms, and offers insights into the diachrony of tense-aspect-modality in Gyalrongic
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |