Ebook: The ‘Double Demonstratives’ of Chantyal

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000. - 13 p.The Chantyal language [Tibeto-Burman: Bodic: Bodish: Tamangic] is spoken by about 2000 of the 11,000 ethnic Chantyal in the Myagdi District of westcentral Nepal.1 Chantyal attests a number of Bodic demonstrative etymons, but only members of three sets retain clear demonstrative senses and oppositions based on spatial deixis.2 In this paper, I will discuss these three sets of demonstratives and, in particular, how demonstratives from different sets can combine to form a construction I will call the ‘double demonstrative’.