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Title Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw | ||
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Date 2024 | ||
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Author(s) Mous, M.P.G.M.; Alphonce, C. | ||
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Contributor(s) Essegbey, J.; Aboh, E.O. | ||
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Abstract Iraqw has a number of morphological means to derive nouns from verbs. All of these can develop specific meanings but it is the nominalisation that expresses the action of the verb that allows for the expression of arguments, irrespective of the actual nominalisation morpheme. These arguments (patient or agent) can be expressed as possessive elements in noun phrases. Despite the fact that the deverbal noun is fully nominal in morphological characteristics, the deverbal noun can occur in constructions in which its semantic argument (patient or agent) is expressed as an object to the main verb. There are four constructions to integrate a deverbal noun in a clause. We provide an overview of the formal characteristics of these constructions. - Descriptive and Comparative Linguistics | ||
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Subject(s) Nominalisation; Complementation; Raising; Iraqw; Cushitic | ||
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Language en | ||
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Type of publication Part of book or chapter of book; info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart; Text | ||
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Source Studies in Language Companion Series -- Predication in African languages | ||
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Identifier isbn:9789027214706; eisbn:9789027247018; doi:10.1075/slcs.235.11mou; lucris-id:1307507966 | ||
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Repository Leiden - University of Leiden 
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