Polysemous agent nominals in Kambaata (Cushitic)

Yvonne Treis

doi:10.1524/stuf.2011.0026

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Polysemous agent nominals in Kambaata (Cushitic)

Yvonne Treis

Published/Copyright: December 20, 2011

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From the journal STUF - Language Typology and Universals Volume 64 Issue 4

Abstract

Kambaata has a morpheme aan with which agent nominals can be derived from verbs and nouns. The present article discusses, firstly, the morphological and syntactic characteristics of aan nominals and the specific problem of which word class they should be assigned to. Secondly, it is shown that the -aan morpheme is multifunctional. Apart from agent nominals, it is used to derive instrument, place and patient nominals.

Keywords: nominalization; polysemy; agent noun; instrument noun; Cushitic languages

Published Online: 2011-12-20

Published in Print: 2011-12

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nominalization; polysemy; agent noun; instrument noun; Cushitic languages