Making and granting requests in the Old Tibetan Ramayana
Channel: Nathan Hill
Date: 2022-09-21

This lecture was given under the title "The syntax of subordination with verba dicendi matrix verbs in the Old Tibetan Ramayana" at the Linguistics Research Seminars of Trinity College Dublin (21 September 2022). I fear it is not my best performance, but will I hope interest some small number of people.

00:00 Introduction
00:15 Terminology
00:53 Overview gsol 'request' and gnang 'agree'
01:40 gsol 'request' in direct speech
07:36 gsol 'request' in the narrative frame
10:32 The verb gnang 'agree'
11:52 Present infinitives with the matrix verb gnang
13:28 Other present infinitives
16:17 Terminative verbal nouns with the matrix verb gnang
23:56 Conclusions