Verb agreement in Rana Tharu

Type Journal Article - Nepalese Linguistics
Title Verb agreement in Rana Tharu
Author(s)
Volume 30
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2015
Page numbers 50-59
URL http://lsn.org.np/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/NepLing30.pdf#page=54
Abstract
Rana Tharu presents some interesting cases of
verb agreement. Like other Indo-Aryan
neighbours, the verb is marked for agreement
with one nominal phrase in a clause. The verb
encodes the information, such as person, number,
gender and honorificity of the subject. The
transitive verbs are marked distinctly only if the
subjects are the third person pronouns or noun
phrases (NPs) in the past tense.

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