Abstract
This paper discusses forms, types, and functions of nominalizations in Murui, a Witotoan language spoken in Colombia and Peru. It is concerned with those nominalizations that involve classifiers and those that do not (agentive S/A nominalizations and event nominalizations). Murui nominalizations share a number of noun-like and verb-like properties. While agentive S/A nominalizations and those involving classifiers are more noun-like in nature, event nominalizations are more verb-like.
Abbreviations
- 1, 2, 3
first, second, third person
- a
subject of transitive verb
- abl
ablative
- adv
adverbial
- audit
auditory
- agt
agentive
- an
animate
- ana
anaphoric
- andtv
andative
- at
locative ‘at’
- att
attributive
- ca
common argument
- caus
causative
- clf
classifier
- coll
collective
- compl
completive
- conn
connective
- conj
conjunction
- cts
close-to-speaker (demonstrative)
- dr
‘derivational’ animate classifier
- des
desiderative
- du
dual
- dur
durative
- e
event (nominalization)
- emph
emphatic
- epist
epistemic
- f
feminine
- fur
referring to fur-like objects (classifier)
- fut
future
- g
generic
- gr
group
- hab
habitual
- hum
human referent
- imp
imperative
- incp
inceptive
- inher
inherent
- ins
instrumental
- interj
interjection
- lk
linker
- loc
locative
- m/m
masculine
- neg
negative/negation
- neut
neutral
- nmlz
nominalization
- np
noun phrase
- nsp
non-specific
- n.s/a.top
topical non-S/A subject
- o
object of transitive verb
- pass
passive
- pl/pl
plural
- place
place (classifier)
- pr
‘pronominal’ animate classifier
- pred
predicate
- q1
question word bu-
- q2
question word nɨ-
- red
reduplication
- rep
reported
- s
subject of intransitive verb
- seq
sequential
- sg/sg
singular
- smlf
semelfactive
- sp
specific
- Sp.
Spanish
- stem
referring to stem-like objects (classifier)
- top.s/a
topical S/A subject
- th
thematic
- uncert
uncertainty
- vcs
verbless copula subject
- vcc
verbless clause complement
- voc
vocative
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Nominalization in Northwest Amazonia: Introduction
- Nominalizations in Murui (Witotoan)
- Nominalization in Kakua and the Vaupés influence
- How to copy your neighbors’ ways: A cross-generational perspective on nominalizations in Tariana
- Nominalization patterns in Alto Perené, a Kampa Arawak language of Peru
- From verb to noun and back again: Non-referential uses of nominalizations in Aguaruna (Chicham)
- A cline between nouns and verbs: Nominalizations in Shiwiar (Chicham)
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Nominalization in Northwest Amazonia: Introduction
- Nominalizations in Murui (Witotoan)
- Nominalization in Kakua and the Vaupés influence
- How to copy your neighbors’ ways: A cross-generational perspective on nominalizations in Tariana
- Nominalization patterns in Alto Perené, a Kampa Arawak language of Peru
- From verb to noun and back again: Non-referential uses of nominalizations in Aguaruna (Chicham)
- A cline between nouns and verbs: Nominalizations in Shiwiar (Chicham)