Chapter published in:
Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent StateEdited by Casper de Groot
[Typological Studies in Language 119] 2017
► pp. 397–426
Chapter 17The essive-translative in Tundra Nenets
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of a marker referred to as the ‘essive-translative’ in Tundra Nenets. 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 its 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.
Keywords: Tundra Nenets, depictive, essive case, impermanent state, non-verbal predication, individual-level predicate, stage-level predicate, focus
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Case system in Tundra Nenets
- 1.2Nominal categories and the essive-translative
- 2.Non-verbal predicates and copula constructions
- 2.1Basic copula constructions
- 2.2Semi-copula constructions
- 2.3The origin of semi-copula constructions
- 3.Secondary predicates – secondary predications
- 4.Predicative complements
- 5.Adverbials
- 6.Temporality and location
- 7.Comparative and similative expressions
- 8.Essive versus translative
- 9.Word order and focus
- 10.Conclusion
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Published online: 30 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.119.17jal
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.119.17jal
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NW = the column Ялумд” from the years 2005–2012 that appears in Няръяна вындер
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