Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian LanguagesThis book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: “Altaic”) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages. |
Contents
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2 Methodology | 45 |
3 Verb Roots | 89 |
4 Negation | 174 |
5 Verbalization and actionality | 209 |
6 Valence and voice | 271 |
7 Nominalization and the development of finite temporal distinctions | 330 |
8 Converbs | 449 |
9 Evaluation | 485 |
Abbreviations | 507 |
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Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian Languages Martine Robbeets Limited preview - 2015 |
Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Other Transeurasian Languages Martine Robbeets No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
action adnominal form adverbial allomorph Altaic anticausative attested base noun become Benzing borrowing Chuvash clausal nominalization clauses code-copying cognate consonant converb suffix copied copula correspondences de-adjectival denominal verb deverbal noun suffix e.g. OJ Erdal etymologies Evenki examples fientive finite fricative function genealogical Gorelova grammaticalization illustrated inchoative Indo-European inflectional instance insubordination intr intransitive Japonic Khitan lexical verb linguistic Manchu marker Martin meaning Middle Korean Mongolian Mongolic languages morphemes Nanai Nedjalkov negative auxiliary negative verb Old Japanese Old Turkic original Oroch Orok paradigm passive perfective phonological Poppe property words proposed pTEA Ramstedt reconstruction reflected reflexes resultative nominalizer Robbeets Ryukyuan Ryukyuan languages Section semantic Shodon Shuri stem-final suffix pJ suffix pTg suggest tion tive Transeurasian languages transitive verbs Tungusic languages Turkic languages Udehe velar verb morphology verb stems verb suffix verbal adjectives Vovin vowel vowel harmony whereas