Agents and Actions in Classical Tibetan

Abstract

PREFACE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TIBETAN WORKS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY SOURCES ; ABBREVIATIONS ; I. INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONAL TIBETAN GRAMMAR ON BDAG9 GZAN AND RELATED NOTIONS ; A. The basic notions at stake ; B. Some historical remarks on pre-Si tu developments ; C. A survey of some of the post-Si tu literature on self and other ; D. Si tu's dictum on act-qua-doing being in the present, etc. ; E. Appendixes ; 1. Contemporary developments: autonomous and other-dependent verbs ; 2. Tshe ten tabs drun's list of the major commentaries on the Sum cu pa and rTags kyi 'jug pa ; II. TRANSLATIONS AND TIBETAN TEXTS ; Tibetan text and English translation of the rTags kyi jugpaï dka' gnas bdag gzan dan by a byed las gsum gyi khyad par üb tu phye ba nun gsal 'phrul gyi Ide mig by A kya Yons 'dzin dByans can dga' ba'i bio gros; Tibetan text and English translation of an excerpt on bdag and gzan from Si tu Pan chen's commentary on the Sum cu pa and rTags kyi jug pa entitled the mKhas pa'i mgul rgyan mu tig phren mdzes ; Notes to the translations ; III. TRANSITIVITY AND VOICE: THE PERSPECTIVE FROM TIBET ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Case-marking ; 2.1 Transitive vs. intransitive clauses ; 3. Tense/aspect and "argument prominence" ; 3.1 The data ; 4. The futures and other periphrastic forms ; 4.1 Agreement in terms of prominence ; 5. The Tibetan labelling of arguments ; 6. Conclusions and unsolved problems ; Appendix: A note on the ergative split in classical Tibetan ; Table: The vocabulary of traditional Tibetan grammatical analysis ; IV. GLOSSARIES AND INDEXES ; Glossary of Tibetan technical terms ; Glossary of the principal linguistic terms used ; Index of proper names ; Index of terms ;