A Comparative Study of the Inflected Forms of Tibetan and English Verbs

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.291How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tibetan; English; verb; inflection

Abstract

Based on the literature, this paper compares and analyzes the forms of regular verbs in Tibetan and English from the perspective of morphology by combining diachronic and synchronic methods. The Tibetan suffix is free morpheme and the English suffix is adhesive morpheme. The suffix of regular verbs in English is the inflection of morphological components, while the suffix of regular verbs in Tibetan is the inflection of morphological components, root factors or both. The roots of regular verbs in English are present tense, while those in Tibetan are more inclined to past tense. Except for the zero form of the present tense of Tibetan English verbs, there is no one-to-one correspondence between the morphological components of other verbs and their grammatical meanings.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xiaolan Shi
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - A Comparative Study of the Inflected Forms of Tibetan and English Verbs
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1322
EP  - 1324
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.291
DO  - 10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.291
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