From noun to future tense: The functional diachrony of the l-future in the Nuristani languages and its typological background.

Autor: Fries, Simon, Halfmann, Jakob, Hill, Eugen, Hübner, Denise
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Zdroj: STUF: Language Typology & Universals; Apr2023, Vol. 76 Issue 1, p53-85, 33p
Abstrakt: This article explores a typologically unusual but recurrent evolutionary path of innovated future formations neglected by typological research: the change of predicative deverbal nouns (understood here in the broad sense of any deverbal nominal expression/formation) – namely agent nouns and participles – denoting actions typical of referents to future verb-forms via hypoanalysis. Starting with an overview of typologically recurrent ways of creating new future formations, the article seeks to demonstrate that the l-future found in the three Nuristani languages Nuristani Kalasha, Ashkun and Katë developed from active participles designating actions typical of their referents. As a typological parallel of this development the Vedic Sanskrit tā́-future is established, and it is shown by the example of the English will + infinitive future and the futurate use of Russian perfective non-past verb-forms how the change of predicative deverbal nouns denoting actions typical of referents to future verb-forms is brought about by means of hypoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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