Syntax in morphological guise: Interrogative verbal morphology in Abaza
| Autor: | Peter M. Arkadiev |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Linguistics and Language History 05 social sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Morphology (biology) 0305 other medical science Interrogative Syntax Language and Linguistics Linguistics |
| Zdroj: | Linguistic Typology. 24:211-251 |
| ISSN: | 1613-415X 1430-0532 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/lingty-2020-5004 |
| Popis: | Abaza, a polysynthetic ergative Northwest Caucasian language, possesses a typologically unique system of forming content questions by means of inflectional marking in the verb. I offer a detailed description of this peculiar system, showing how it is grounded in the more general pattern of encoding relativization by means of prefixes forming part of the basic cross-referencing paradigms. I also discuss a tentative diachronic scenario, explaining how at least a subpart of the synthetic interrogative marking in Abaza (and its close relative Abkhaz) could have emerged via univerbation of pseudocleft focus constructions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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