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Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundariesEdited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells
[Typological Studies in Language 116] 2017
► pp. 147–178
The general noun-modifying clause construction in Tundra Nenets and its possible origin
Irina Nikolaeva | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Tundra Nenets (Uralic) exhibits unambiguous relative clauses and sentential complements of nouns, but I show that it also has a previously unstudied but structurally distinct GNMCC. The GNMCC covers a diversity of functions although its usage is restricted in various ways. The paper suggests that it has a direct parallel in the non-sentential domain in terms of its syntactic behaviour, the morphosyntactic expression of the constructional ingredients and the basic semantics: it is modelled after the non-clausal compound-like structure employed for the very general purpose of modifying one noun by reference to another noun. Such modification-by-noun constructions served as a historical source of Tundra Nenets GNMCCs, which emerged when the modifying deverbal noun was reanalysed as heading a clausal domain.
Keywords: noun-noun compounds, modification, reanalysis, deverbal nominals
Published online: 28 February 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.116.08nik
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.116.08nik
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