| 英文摘要 |
Some modern spoken Tibetan verbs of being are used only in a copular sense (''A is B''). Others are both existential (''There exists'', ''There is'', ''There are'', ''She has'', ''They have'') and, in certain constructions, copular; this dual use is demonstrably due to the semantic expansion of what were, in origin, purely existential verbs. Though we allude to comparative Sino-Tibetan linguistics in attempting to determine the impetus for this spread, we rely primarily on spoken Tibetan itself. Tibetan verbs of being are also characterized by a partial association with person, expressed either through different verbs or through derivation. The copular yii (written Tibetan yin) has a connection with the first person; the copular reè (written Tibetan red) does not. |
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