Stephen Watters
List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen Watters is involved.
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2024 The discourse functions of simple copulas in Dzongkha The Functions of Evidentiality, Mélac, Eric and Pascale Leclercq (eds.), pp. 34–62 | Article
The marking on copular verbs in Tibetic languages is regarded as an exemplar of egophoricity, although the extent to which it has been grammaticalized varies between languages. Dzongkha, a southern Tibetic language, is somewhat atypical of the egophoric pattern in the sense that the basic… read more
