Reflexive paradigms in Khaling

Jacques, Guillaume; Lahaussois, Aimée; Rai, Dhan Bahadur

doi:10.1075/ltba.39.1.02jac

Article published In: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
Vol. 39:1 (2016) ► pp.33–48

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Reflexive paradigms in Khaling

Guillaume Jacques

Aimée Lahaussois

Dhan Bahadur Rai

Published online: 8 July 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.39.1.02jac

Khaling, like other Kiranti languages, has a Reflexive / Middle suﬃx-si, the main function of which is to reduce the valence of verbs. The present paper describes the complex morphological alternations observed in the reflexive paradigms, and provides a detailed account of the various meanings of the -si derivation in Khaling.

Keywords: anti-causative, autobenefactive, reflexive, middle, Khaling, Kiranti, reciprocal, antipassive

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