Cilitives (‘easy’ and ‘difficult’) in West Circassian: Semantics, argument structure and part-of-speech characteristics
| Autor: | Irina G. Bagirokova, Yury Lander |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Structure (mathematical logic)
difficilitive constructions Computer science Semantics (computer science) argument structure P1-1091 cilitive constructions Part of speech west circassian Linguistics Argument General Earth and Planetary Sciences facilitive constructions Philology. Linguistics General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Rhema. Рема, Iss 1, Pp 56-75 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2500-2953 |
| Popis: | West Circassian displays two types of cilitive (facilitive ‘easy’ and difficilitive ‘difficult’) forms, namely nominal cilitives, which describe individuals, and secondary cilitives, which describe the state of affairs. Secondary cilitives seemingly originate from nominal cilitives, hence the same cilitive suffixes mark forms that are remarkably different from each other in their morphosyntax. While nominal cilitives eliminate the argument structure of their base, secondary cilitives show optional reduction of the argument structure which is arguably motivated by their semantics and not by any grammatical rule. We also suggest that the contrast between cilitive constructions describing individuals and those describing the state of affairs can be found in other languages as well. |
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