WordsforoneinBaima.PDF

Words for ’one’ in Baima Ekaterina Chirkova To cite this version: Ekaterina Chirkova. Words for ’one’ in Baima. Cahiers de linguistique - Asie Orientale, CR- LAO, 2005, 34 (1), pp.69-99. HAL Id: halshs https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs Submitted on 5 Oct 2006 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destin′eeau d′ep?otet `ala di?usion de documents enti?c research documents, whether they are pub- scienti?ques de niveau recherche, publi′esou non, lished or not. The documents may come from ′emanant des ′etablissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche fran?caisou ′etrangers,des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou priv′es. Words for one in Báimǎ* Katia CHIRKOVA This article describes different words for one in Báimǎ, a language spoken at the border of Sìchuān and Gānsù provinces in China. According to Sūn Hóngkāi, the profusion of words for one in Báimǎ is one of the features that distinguish Báimǎ from Tibetan. This paper discusses the distribution of various words for one in a corpus of Báimǎ stories collected during a fieldwork in 2003, and comments on their meanings and functions, on restrictions of their co-occurrence, and on their interchangeability and etymology. Contrary to Sūns conclusion, it is argued that all forms are cognate with Tibetan. Key words : Báimǎ, numeral one, indefinite marker, Classical Tibetan, Tibetan dialects, etymology. Cet article décrit des mots differents signifiant un en báimǎ, langue parlée à la frontière du Sìchuān et Gānsù en Chine. Da