The Structure and Hierarchy of Sentence-endings in Tibetan Language

• 作者: Li Huaping
• 来源期刊: 宏观语言学
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: Tibetan sentence-endings syntactic hierarchy sentence-completion category pragmatic category SUBJECTIVITY syntactic sentence pragmatic sentence
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（2）
• 页码范围: 28-43
• 页数: 16页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

This paper discusses the structure and hierarchy of sentence-endings in Tibetanlanguage. Tibetan sentence-endings are hierarchical. They can be divided into two levelsfrom the perspectives of structure, distribution and expressive function. The first levelcomes after the predicate or verb phrase, indicating the category of tense/aspect/mood(TAM). The second level, which follows a self-sufficient sentence, mainly expresses themeaning of the speaker’s hint, inference, evaluation and attitude to the information. Eachlevel includes several different types of endings, which act on different syntactic categoriesor manifest different degrees of subjectivity. The lower the degree of correlation betweenthe endings and the information of the self-sufficient sentence is, the higher thecorresponding semantic category and the speaker’s subjective participation are. Somelower-level endings can also express the grammatical meaning of the higher level in certaincontext with increasing subjectivity.