Nominalization and relativization in Tujia
A crosslinguistic perspective
Lu Man | Hunan University
Jeroen van de Weijer | Shenzhen University
Liu Zhengguang | Hunan University
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of
nominalization and relativization in Tujia from a typological perspective. We
show that there are several nominalizers in Tujia, only two of which are
multifunctional: ɕi and ɲie. ɕi can function
as a nominalizer, a relativizer, a complementizer, a converbal clause marker or
a stance marker. ɲie can function as a genitive marker, a
nominalizer, a relative clause marker, a non-relative attributive marker or a
stance marker. Relative clauses in Tujia can be head internal and pre-nominal.
The head internal relative clauses are marked by ɕi, while the
pre-nominal relative clauses are marked by ɲie. [1] 1 We point out that ɲie
manifests typical genitive-relative-nominalization syncretism, whereas
ɕi manifests extended nominalization functions, both of
which are widely attested in other Tibeto-Burman languages. We argue that
ɕi originates from a general noun, of unknown etymology.
The nominalizer ɲie originates from a genitive marker. These
findings should prove useful to future typological or comparative research with
respect to nominalization in Tibeto-Burman languages.
Keywords: nominalization, relativization, demonstratives, Tujia
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Morphosyntactic properties of nouns and verbs in Tujia language
- 3.
ɕi
- 3.1Lexical nominalization
- 3.2Action nominalization
- 3.3Converbal clauses
- 3.4Relative clauses
- 3.5Complement clause
- 3.6Non-embedded, independent clauses
- 4.
Ɲie
- 4.1Genitive constructions
- 4.2Non-relative attributive
- 4.3Pre-nominal relative clause
- 4.4Nominalizer
- 4.5Non-embedded clauses
- 5.Summary and discussion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Abbreviations
-
References
Published online: 14 June 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.16021.man
https://doi.org/10.1075/ltba.16021.man
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