Non-canonical inverse in Circassian languages

Autor:	Peter M. Arkadiev
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 050101 languages & linguistics 03 medical and health sciences Pure mathematics Non canonical 05 social sciences Inverse 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Mathematics
Zdroj:	STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 73:81-111
ISSN:	2196-7148 1867-8319
DOI:	10.1515/stuf-2019-0028
Popis:	This paper discusses a typologically peculiar inverse-like construction found in the polysynthetic ergative Circassian languages of the Northwest-Caucasian family. These languages possess a cislocative verbal prefix, which, in addition to marking the spatial meaning of speaker-orientation, systematically occurs in polyvalent verbs when the object outranks the subject on the person hierarchy. The inverse-like use of the cislocative in Circassian differs from the “canonical” direct-inverse system in that, first, it is fully redundant since the person-role linking is achieved by means of the person markers themselves and, second, it does not occur in the basic transitive construction, featuring instead in configurations involving an indirect object both in ditransitive and bivalent intransitive verbs. It is argued that the typologically outstanding properties of the Circassian inverse-like marking can be naturally explained by its diachronic origin.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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