Chapter 11. Amdo Altaic directives and comparatives based on the verb ‘to see’
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Hans Nugteren
Abstract
The Amdo or Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund consists of Mongolic and Turkic languages, as well as of many varieties of Amdo Tibetan and Northwestern Mandarin. This paper discusses the directive/allative markers and the comparative markers based on verbs of vision, as found in most of the Shirongol Mongolic languages and in the Turkic language Salar, as well as in Amdo Tibetan and aberrant varieties of Mandarin like Wutun. Comparable developments seem to be absent in Dongxiang, Eastern Yugur and Western Yugur. The forms found in the Mongolic and Turkic languages of Amdo will be compared with similar markers in Central Turkic languages, which developed them independently on the basis of different verbs.
Abstract
The Amdo or Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund consists of Mongolic and Turkic languages, as well as of many varieties of Amdo Tibetan and Northwestern Mandarin. This paper discusses the directive/allative markers and the comparative markers based on verbs of vision, as found in most of the Shirongol Mongolic languages and in the Turkic language Salar, as well as in Amdo Tibetan and aberrant varieties of Mandarin like Wutun. Comparable developments seem to be absent in Dongxiang, Eastern Yugur and Western Yugur. The forms found in the Mongolic and Turkic languages of Amdo will be compared with similar markers in Central Turkic languages, which developed them independently on the basis of different verbs.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of tables ix
- List of figures xv
- List of contributors xvii
- Acknowledgements xix
- Chapter 1. When paradigms change 1
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Part I. Paradigm change
- Chapter 2. On the strength of morphological paradigms 23
- Chapter 3. Derivational paradigms in diachrony and comparison 61
- Chapter 4. On arguing from diachrony for paradigms 89
- Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm 103
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Part II. The continuation of paradigms
- Chapter 6. Perceived formal and functional equivalence 129
- Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean 141
- Chapter 8. Old Japanese bigrade paradigms and Korean passives and causatives 177
- Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspective 197
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Part III. The innovation of paradigms
- Chapter 10. A Yakut copy of a Tungusic viewpoint aspect paradigm 235
- Chapter 11. Amdo Altaic directives and comparatives based on the verb ‘to see’ 243
- Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms 257
- Chapter 13. Paradigm copying in Tungusic 287
- Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic 311
- Language index 337
- Subject index 343
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of tables ix
- List of figures xv
- List of contributors xvii
- Acknowledgements xix
- Chapter 1. When paradigms change 1
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Part I. Paradigm change
- Chapter 2. On the strength of morphological paradigms 23
- Chapter 3. Derivational paradigms in diachrony and comparison 61
- Chapter 4. On arguing from diachrony for paradigms 89
- Chapter 5. Reconstructing the Niger-Congo Verb Extension Paradigm 103
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Part II. The continuation of paradigms
- Chapter 6. Perceived formal and functional equivalence 129
- Chapter 7. Comparative consequences of the tongue root harmony analysis for proto-Tungusic, proto-Mongolic, and proto-Korean 141
- Chapter 8. Old Japanese bigrade paradigms and Korean passives and causatives 177
- Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspective 197
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Part III. The innovation of paradigms
- Chapter 10. A Yakut copy of a Tungusic viewpoint aspect paradigm 235
- Chapter 11. Amdo Altaic directives and comparatives based on the verb ‘to see’ 243
- Chapter 12. Innovations and archaisms in Siberian Turkic spatial case paradigms 257
- Chapter 13. Paradigm copying in Tungusic 287
- Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic 311
- Language index 337
- Subject index 343
