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Dissertation by Marie-Caroline Pons
PhD Dissertation, 2022
Scott DeLancey who gave me the confidence to grow as a linguist. Scott, thank you so much for you... more Scott DeLancey who gave me the confidence to grow as a linguist. Scott, thank you so much for your support, your vision and scholarship, and for always reminding me to chill out. I have been so lucky to be surrounded by some of the best people in this world. Thank you to all of you. To my dissertation committee members, Spike Gildea, Doris Payne, and Jing Zhuo-Schmidt, and the UO Linguistics Department professors who helped me sharpen my linguistic analytical skills
Papers by Marie-Caroline Pons
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2021
Two 2nd person verbal indexation forms are reconstructed back to Proto-Trans- Himalayan (PTH): a ... more Two 2nd person verbal indexation forms are reconstructed back to Proto-Trans- Himalayan (PTH): a suffix #-n(a) (Bauman 1975; DeLancey 1989, 2014; H. Sun 1983, 1995; van Driem 1993; Watters 2002), and a prefix #tV- (Watters 2002; Jacques 2012; DeLancey 2011a, 2014). While #-n(a) is in paradigmatic distribu- tion with other suffixal forms, the prefixal position of #tV-raises the question of its functional origin.
DeLancey (2011a, 2014: 23) suggests hypothetically that #tV- finds its origin either in a non-finite nominalization or in an irrealis nominalization, “ideal for an impersonal 2nd person use: ‘One might [speak]’ rather than ‘You will [speak].’”
Through the comparison of cognate tV- possessive and tV- nominalizer prefixes found in rGyalrongic, Kuki-Naga (Ao), and Sinitic, I propose that 2nd person #tV- can be traced back to a nominal possessive modifier such as one’s or someone’s: a MAN-type of R-impersonals (Malchukov & Siewierska 2011). Spreading to verbs, #tV- was used as a nominalizer indexing the notional S or A argument. With nouns and verbs alike, the referent of the possessor, whether 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person, was specific (Siewierska 2011: 62), accessible in discourse, anaphorically or deictically, regardless of the presence of a coreferential overt noun-phrase. The prefix #tV- started to be used in particular to address 2nd person indirectly, a development likely triggered by pragmatic motivations, i.e. politeness, before being reanalyzed as a 2nd person indexation marker.
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2022
Book Reviews by Marie-Caroline Pons
Himalayan Linguistics, 2021
PhD Dissertation, 2022
Scott DeLancey who gave me the confidence to grow as a linguist. Scott, thank you so much for you... more Scott DeLancey who gave me the confidence to grow as a linguist. Scott, thank you so much for your support, your vision and scholarship, and for always reminding me to chill out. I have been so lucky to be surrounded by some of the best people in this world. Thank you to all of you. To my dissertation committee members, Spike Gildea, Doris Payne, and Jing Zhuo-Schmidt, and the UO Linguistics Department professors who helped me sharpen my linguistic analytical skills
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2021
Two 2nd person verbal indexation forms are reconstructed back to Proto-Trans- Himalayan (PTH): a ... more Two 2nd person verbal indexation forms are reconstructed back to Proto-Trans- Himalayan (PTH): a suffix #-n(a) (Bauman 1975; DeLancey 1989, 2014; H. Sun 1983, 1995; van Driem 1993; Watters 2002), and a prefix #tV- (Watters 2002; Jacques 2012; DeLancey 2011a, 2014). While #-n(a) is in paradigmatic distribu- tion with other suffixal forms, the prefixal position of #tV-raises the question of its functional origin.
DeLancey (2011a, 2014: 23) suggests hypothetically that #tV- finds its origin either in a non-finite nominalization or in an irrealis nominalization, “ideal for an impersonal 2nd person use: ‘One might [speak]’ rather than ‘You will [speak].’”
Through the comparison of cognate tV- possessive and tV- nominalizer prefixes found in rGyalrongic, Kuki-Naga (Ao), and Sinitic, I propose that 2nd person #tV- can be traced back to a nominal possessive modifier such as one’s or someone’s: a MAN-type of R-impersonals (Malchukov & Siewierska 2011). Spreading to verbs, #tV- was used as a nominalizer indexing the notional S or A argument. With nouns and verbs alike, the referent of the possessor, whether 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person, was specific (Siewierska 2011: 62), accessible in discourse, anaphorically or deictically, regardless of the presence of a coreferential overt noun-phrase. The prefix #tV- started to be used in particular to address 2nd person indirectly, a development likely triggered by pragmatic motivations, i.e. politeness, before being reanalyzed as a 2nd person indexation marker.
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2022
Himalayan Linguistics, 2021