A Study on Conjunctive Markers of Cause-effect Complex Sentences in Tibeto-Burman Languages——Contrast to Chinese

The conjunctive markers,which can be found a set of similarities,also vary a lot in different Tibeto-Burman Languages. It is an effective way to find the evolutionary trace of cause-effect complex sentences in Tibeto-Burman Languages by comparing the related languages. The cause-effect complex sentences in Tibeto-Burman Languages have the characteristics as follows:the sub-clause of reason stands before the sub-clause of result; the prior position of the conjunctive markers is between the two sub-clauses; the conjunctive markers express a trait of multifunction; There is no common origin of the conjunctive markers in different languages. The conjunctive markers of different languages rarely have cognate relationship. There are both similarities and differences compared with Chinese.