The Tangut verbal template from a cross-West Gyalrongic perspective

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ID2769029
AuthorsMathieu Beaudouin (0000-0002-9267-7734, Harvard University Press, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume88
Issue2
Pages1-11
Publication date2025-02-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x24000636
OpenAlexW4407904855
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

The past decade has seen an increase in attention to Tangut, an extinct Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the rulers of the Western Xia xīxià 西夏 empire. The question of its classification has become a subject of discussion especially since the documentation of its closest relatives came to light recently. The present paper builds on the study of the Tangut verb template by Jacques (2011) to question the place of Tangut with regard to the Horpa languages (Beaudouin 2023b). By doing so, it identifies a phenomenon of attraction encompassing synchronic and diachronic analysis and proposes that verbal templatic morphology in West Gyalrongic is nuclear

Art · Linguistics · Perspective (graphical) · Visual arts · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

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