TY - JOUR

T1 - Причинный союз tbət в кхмерском языке: заметки об истории и особенностях функционирования

AU - Дмитренко, Сергей Юрьевич

N1 - Funding Information: Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia; dmitrserg@mail.ru Abstract: The paper describes the conjunction tbət, a causal marker in Cambodian. Some aspects of its his-tory and its functioning in Middle and Modern Cambodian are considered. Although there is no consensus as to the origins of this conjunction, its genetic links to the Sanskrit (or Pali) word pada ‘footstep, trace, vestige, pretext’ are indisputable. Its first appearance in texts goes back to Middle Cambodian. In 17th– 18th century texts, it occurs as a major causal marker functioning as either a preposition or conjunction. The paper analyzes its use during that period based on 17th century epigraphic inscriptions and on a clas-sical didactic poem, Cbap Preah Riəcsɒmphiə. Further, I analyze numerous occurrences of tbət in the picaresque tale Rɯəŋ Thunɲcəj, composed in an archaic style similar to Middle Cambodian. In mod-ern written Cambodian, tbət only occurs as a causal conjunction. Causal clauses introduced by tbət in-variably follow the main clause, while those with other causal markers can either precede or follow the main clause. Tbət is mostly found in journalistic or scientific texts. Though the conjunction some-times lends certain “archaic” flavor to the texts it appears in, its meaning is often fairly neutral and only serves to mark an official, bookish style of the writing. As a typological rarity, Modern Cambodian sometimes uses tbət to mark concession, with the concessive tbət-clauses preceding the main clause. Keywords: Austroasiatic, cause, concessive, conjunctions, grammaticalization, Khmer Acknowledgements: The research was supported by Russian Science Foundation, project No. 18-18-00472. For citation: Dmitrenko S. Yu. Causal conjunction tbət in Cambodian: Notes on the history and functional properties. Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2021, 1: 84–103. DOI: 10.31857/0373-658X.2021.1.84-103 Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Russian Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/1

Y1 - 2021/1

N2 - The paper describes the conjunction tbət, a causal marker in Cambodian. Some aspects of its history and its functioning in Middle and Modern Cambodian are considered. Although there is no consensus as to the origins of this conjunction, its genetic links to the Sanskrit (or Pali) word pada ‘footstep, trace, vestige, pretext’ are indisputable. Its first appearance in texts goes back to Middle Cambodian. In 17 th– 18 th century texts, it occurs as a major causal marker functioning as either a preposition or conjunction. The paper analyzes its use during that period based on 17 th century epigraphic inscriptions and on a classical didactic poem, Cbap Preah Riəcsɒmphiə. Further, I analyze numerous occurrences of tbət in the picaresque tale Rɯəŋ Thunɲcəj, composed in an archaic style similar to Middle Cambodian. In modern written Cambodian, tbət only occurs as a causal conjunction. Causal clauses introduced by tbət invariably follow the main clause, while those with other causal markers can either precede or follow the main clause. Tbət is mostly found in journalistic or scientific texts. Though the conjunction sometimes lends certain “archaic” flavor to the texts it appears in, its meaning is often fairly neutral and only serves to mark an official, bookish style of the writing. As a typological rarity, Modern Cambodian sometimes uses tbət to mark concession, with the concessive tbət-clauses preceding the main clause.

AB - The paper describes the conjunction tbət, a causal marker in Cambodian. Some aspects of its history and its functioning in Middle and Modern Cambodian are considered. Although there is no consensus as to the origins of this conjunction, its genetic links to the Sanskrit (or Pali) word pada ‘footstep, trace, vestige, pretext’ are indisputable. Its first appearance in texts goes back to Middle Cambodian. In 17 th– 18 th century texts, it occurs as a major causal marker functioning as either a preposition or conjunction. The paper analyzes its use during that period based on 17 th century epigraphic inscriptions and on a classical didactic poem, Cbap Preah Riəcsɒmphiə. Further, I analyze numerous occurrences of tbət in the picaresque tale Rɯəŋ Thunɲcəj, composed in an archaic style similar to Middle Cambodian. In modern written Cambodian, tbət only occurs as a causal conjunction. Causal clauses introduced by tbət invariably follow the main clause, while those with other causal markers can either precede or follow the main clause. Tbət is mostly found in journalistic or scientific texts. Though the conjunction sometimes lends certain “archaic” flavor to the texts it appears in, its meaning is often fairly neutral and only serves to mark an official, bookish style of the writing. As a typological rarity, Modern Cambodian sometimes uses tbət to mark concession, with the concessive tbət-clauses preceding the main clause.

KW - кхмерский язык

KW - СРЕДНЕКХМЕРСКИЙ ЯЗЫК

KW - Синтаксис

KW - причинный союз

KW - причинная конструкция

KW - грамматикализация

KW - Austroasiatic

KW - Cause

KW - Concessive

KW - Conjunctions

KW - Grammaticalization

KW - Khmer

KW - grammaticalization

KW - concessive

KW - conjunctions

KW - cause

KW - Austmasiatic

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U2 - 10.31857/0373-658x.2021.1.84-103

DO - 10.31857/0373-658x.2021.1.84-103

M3 - статья

VL - 2021

SP - 84

EP - 103

JO - ВОПРОСЫ ЯЗЫКОЗНАНИЯ

JF - ВОПРОСЫ ЯЗЫКОЗНАНИЯ

SN - 0373-658X

IS - 1

ER -