Edited by Casper de Groot
[Typological Studies in Language 119] 2017
► pp. 353–377
This chapter presents a corpus-based research, supplemented by elicitation with the last speakers, into the distribution of a marker referred to as the ‘translative’ in Eastern Khanty. The description of the properties of this marker follows the linguistic questionnaire that captures the contexts in which essive and/or translative markers may occur in the Uralic languages. The study specifically investigates the opposition between permanent and impermanent state in non-verbal predications. The linguistic domains involved are non-verbal main predication, secondary predication, complementation, and manner, temporal, and circumstantial adverbial phrases. The use of the marker in the essive sense (associated with state) is contrasted with it use in expressing the translative sense (associated with change). Finally, the syntactic position of elements marked by this form is discussed in relation to the position of focus constituents.