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Variation in Agreement in the Nepali Finite Verb
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Publication · March 09, 2026
Object Relations and Dative Case in Dolakha Newari
ABSTRACT
In Dolakha Newari, the dative case marks recipients of ditransitive verbs and some patients of monotransitive verbs. Quantitative studies show that animacy and activation cost are both relevant in determining the distribution of dative ...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Variation in Agreement in the Nepali Finite Verb
ABSTRACT
In the prescriptive pattern of Nepali verb agreement the verb agrees with the subject in gender, number, and honorific status. This paper presents a quantitative study of gender and number agreement. It shows that the prescriptive patter...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Beyond Preferred Argument Structure: Sentences, Pronouns, and Given Referents in Nepali
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This study examines the amount and distribution of lexical, pronominal and zero mentions in Nepali, an Indo-Aryan language and the national language of Nepal. In this language, there is evidence for all four Preferred Argument Structure ...
Publication · March 09, 2026
An {Analysis} of {Syntax} and {Prosody} {Interactions} in a {Dolakhā} {Newar} {Rendition} of {The} {Mahābhārata}
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This study explores the relationship of prosodic and syntactic structure in a Dolakhā Newār rendering of a portion of The Mahābhārata. Six intonation types are identified and described. The strongest syntax/prosody correlation is betwee...
Publication · March 09, 2026
The Two Adjective Classes in Manange
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Manange has two lexical classes of terms which code property concepts. One class is wholly distinct from both nouns and verbs. We will refer to this as the class of simple adjectives'. The other class shares some inflectional propertie...
Publication · March 09, 2026
The Participial Construction of Dolakhā Newar : Syntactic Implications of an Asian Converb
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The terms “(clause) chaining” and “converbal constructions” are used for the classification of similar types of clause linkage. Chaining is generally used for constructions which do not entail subordination, while converbs are defined a...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Syntactic Aspects of Nominalization in Five Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayan Area
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The goal of this paper is to describe some of the syntactic structures that are created through nominalization processes in Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages and the relationships between those structures. These include both structures i...
Publication · March 09, 2026
A Note on the History of Adjectival Verbs in Newar.
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Most of the adjectival verbs in the Kathmandu and Dolakha dialects of Newar exhibit idiosyncratic phonotactic shapes, including rare disyllabic stems and heavy and nasalized rhymes. The same set of adjectival verbs exhibits irregular inf...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Direct Speech Reports and the Cline of Prosodic Integration in Dolakha Newar
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Direct speech reporting is a rhetorical strategy used frequently in the production of Dolakha Newar narrative. Direct speech reports are syntactically uniform in constituting center-embedded objects of ditransitive verbs. Prosodically, ...
Publication · March 09, 2026
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