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Sizang Chin exhibits verb stem alternation in which one form of a verb (Stem I) occurs in certain environments and a secondary form (Stem II) occurs in other environments. Henderson (1965) correlates Stem I with final clauses and Stem II with non-final clauses. King (2009) correlates Stem II with subordinate clauses. She also correlates Stem I with...
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... King proposes that Stem I correlates to the agentive voice -meaning the focus of the clause is on the agent -and Stem II correlates to the non-agentive voice -meaning the focus is not on the agent. Her conclusions are summarized in Table 1. The issue with King's methodology is that she does not make a clear distinction between the function of verb stem alternation in clausal-level phenomena (causatives/benefactives, adverbials, antipassive) and its function in argument-level phenomena (agentive, nonagentive, ergative, subject/object, etc.). ...Citations
... For that reason, Lai will serve as the basis for the discussion here. However, there is a wider body of literature that should be consulted by the interested investigator (Henderson 1965;Osborne 1975;Chhangte 1993;Yip 2004;Mang 2006;Hartmann 2002;King 2009;Peterson 2020;Davis 2017). ...
... For Vaiphei, we have drawn on Suantak (2013). Significant examples and/or discussion of verb stem alternation in other Kuki-Chin languages include, for Mizo, Lorrain (1940) and Chhangte (1993); for Daai, So-Hartmann (2009); for Thadou, Cover (2006); for Senthang, Ngun Tin Par (2016); for Sizang, Davis (2017); for Hyow, Zakaria (2018); for Rengmitca, Peterson (2020). ...
... Although there are restrictions as to verb classes that the kiprefix may apply to, Singh mentions no other constraints on its overall productivity. Similar observations pertain to other Northeastern languages like Thadou (Hodson 1906;Krishan 1980) and Sizang (Stern 1963;Davis 2017). 31 ...
... For example, there is little indication of MFDs in the Northeastern language Sizang. Sarangthem (2010) and Davis (2017) report two demonstratives, the proximal hîː and the distal tuːa/taː/tâː, which are both often followed by -sîaː, a form that is identical to the absolutive (34a). ...
... Stern (1963) acknowledges Naylor's observations, but claims the marker was not used by his consultant (274). The most recent treatment of Sizang, Davis (2017), recognizes both independent =ǐn and =nǎː ergative markers, in addition to treating siːâ as an explicit marker of absolutive. Davis claims that =nǎː is used regularly in colloquial speech. ...
