Abstract
The paper focuses on a two aspectual morphemes in Moksha Mordvin (<Mordvin<Finno-Ugric). The first of them, the Frequentative, has four phonologically conditioned allomorphs, -ənd-, -n’ə-, -s’ə-, and -kšn’ə-. These affixes used to be separate morphemes in Proto-Finno-Ugric, but ended up as having the same meaning and being complementarily distributed. A remnant of a more archaic stage of language evolution is the Avertive marker, -əkšn’ə-, only different from one of the Frequentative allomorphs by one phoneme, which can hardly be a coincidence. A diachronic hypothesis about how iterative-avertive polyfunctionality could have arisen is suggested.
Abbreviations
- 1/2/3
first/second/third person
- add
additive
- aor
aorist
- aver
avertive
- caus
сausative
- dat
dative
- def
definite
- desid
desiderative
- el
elative
- foc
focus
- freq
frequentative
- gen
genitive
- imp
imperative
- ill
illative
- in
inessive
- inch
inchoative
- incp
inceptive
- indef
indefinite
- inf
infinitive
- ipf
imperfect
- lat
lative
- loc
locative
- mult
multiplicative
- neg
negation
- npst
non-past
- o
object indexing
- pass
passive
- pfct
perfective
- pl
plural
- poss
possessive
- pst
past
- s
subject indexing
- sg
singular
- smlf
semelfactive
- st
stative
- temp
temporal
- transl
translative
- vbz
verbalizer
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Note:
The research is supported by Russian Scientific Foundation (project Nº 16-18-02081, carried out at the Lomonosov Moscow State University). Our data come from our own fieldwork in the Temnikovsky district, Republic of Mordovia from 2013 to 2016 with the team of the Moksha description project, from Moscow State University. The author is indebted to Leo Kozlov and Ivan Stenin for their helpful comments on earlier versions of the paper.
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