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Person variations in Akhvakh verb morphology: functional motivation and origin of an uncommon pattern
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Denis Creissels
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25. September 2009
Abstract
In the Nakh-Daghestanian language family, person agreement is considered a recent innovation of a few isolated languages. Person variations in Akhvakh verb morphology are limited to the perfective positive and follow a typologically rare pattern, in which the same couple of verbal endings encodes a 1st person vs. 2nd/3rd person contrast in declarative clauses, and a 2nd person vs. 1st/3rd person contrast in questions. A comparison of the verb forms concerned by this distinction with other Akhvakh verb forms not involved in this mechanism suggests that, in Akhvakh, the emergence of this atypical pattern resulted from the reanalysis of a TAM distinction.
Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2008-11
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Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
North-East Caucasian;
Akhvakh;
person agreement;
conjunct-disjunct;
grammaticalization
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Automated classification of the world′s languages: a description of the method and preliminary results
- Person variations in Akhvakh verb morphology: functional motivation and origin of an uncommon pattern
- Grammaticalization as a creative process
- Absent arguments on the Absentive: an exercise in silent syntax. Grammatical category or just pragmatic inference?
- Gilbert Lazard & Claire Moyse-Faurie (eds.), Linguistique typologique, (Sens et Structures), Villeneuve d′Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2005. 323pp.
- George Farrugia, Il-Ġens Grammatikali li Jieħdu fil-Malti n-Nomi ta′ Nisel Ingliz, Msida: Mireva Publications, 2003. xviii + 276 pp.
- Gilbert Lazard. La quête des invariants interlangues. La linguistique est-elle une science? (Bibliothèque de Grammaire et Linguistique 23). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006. 338 pp.
