Approaches to Clause Objects of Narrate Verbs and Their Markers in Tibetan
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1. Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology , CASS , Beijing 100081 , China ; 2. Comparative Linguistic Division , E2Institutes of Shanghai Universities , Shanghai 200234 , China
This paper discribes clause-object s of Tibetan cont rolled by narrate verbs. The types of verbs include nar- rating verbs , cognitive verbs , thought verbs , inquiring verbs and other related semantics of the verbs. From it s own sentence st ructure , it could be a complete sentence with subject , predicate , the end of the sentence and modal verb physical markings , perhap s just a single-verb. The clause-object s has it s own predicate and ought to be nomi- nalized by adding nominalized markers. The special marker " zer" and it s variant s in pronounciation and written forms come f rom nominalization of verb "zer" . There are a complex relationship and layers similar to English Direct and Indirect Speech in the clause-object s. The agent of the clause will be identified through functional words of as- pect s , models and context s under the default of subject s of clause-object s. The types of the clauses may be declara- tive , interrogative , imperatives and exclamatives , therefore , they take different types of mood words. What is wor- thy to be pointed out is the absence of some nominalized markers in clause-object s , which will make some t roubles for syntactic algorithm , and need remain to be discussed.