ABSTRACT
The future tense is expressed by the present/future form of the verb plus The choice between and follows our previous discussion on subjective vs. objective perspectives. Strange as it may sound, employment of prepositions in Amdo Tibetan is sensitive to tense. Amdo Tibetan makes a clear distinction between two types of preposition phrases of place/location. The first American fast food restaurant to land in the Amdo Region was KFC, which earned a beachhead in downtown Xining in the summer of 2001 and is still holding strong. The Golden Arches, on the other hand, is no where to be seen from Gansu, Qinghai, to Northern Sichuan. Unlike Lhasa, where an excellent fusion of Indian-Nepalese food is available, as well as traditional Tibetan cuisine, most towns in the Amdo region have two types of food available besides the regular Tibetan fare: Han Chinese and Muslim.
