San San HNIN TUN. 2023.

/Pyi₂/ et le discours au présent en birman

San San Hnin Tun, « /Pyi₂/ et le discours au présent en birman », ELAD-SILDA [En ligne], 8 | 2023, mis en ligne le 14 novembre 2023, consulté le 26 janvier 2024. URL : DOI : 10.35562/elad-silda.1317

Description

Burmese belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family, in which there is a heavy presence of bound-morphemes, of which some (and not all) have one or more grammatical functions. This study attempts to describe the meaning of /pyi2/ in Burmese, which is typically described as one of the three sentence final markers for affirmative statements. Our analyses suggest that /pyi2/ expresses discontinuity between the present and the time that precedes. Based on the corpora of authentic contemporary spoken Burmese, which, to our knowledge, are still (relatively) inaccessible for linguistic analyses and to a larger general audience, our study analyzes the use of /pyi2/ by making a distinction among four cases according to the relationship that they indicate between the present and what precedes.

Author

San San Hnin Tun, lecturer at INALCO, member of LACITO-CNRS.

San San Hnin Tun, « /Pyi₂/ et le discours au présent en birman », ELAD-SILDA [En ligne], 8 | 2023, mis en ligne le 14 novembre 2023, consulté le 26 janvier 2024. URL : https://publications-prairial.fr/elad-silda/index.php?id=1317