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Nominalization in Languages of the Americas
Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck
[Typological Studies in Language 124] 2019
► pp. 273–299

Chapter 6
Nominalization in Central Alaskan Yup’ik

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This article analyzes related lexical and grammatical structures in Central Alaskan Yup’ik (CAY) in terms of the theory of nominalization (Shibatani 2018, this volume) focusing on the relationships between noun formation and grammatical structures paralleling so-called relative clauses in other languages. We first examine the characteristics of nominalizations lexicalized as nouns, showing that various types of nominalizers are employed in the formation of nouns, and then observe that essentially the same formal structure is utilized in relative-clause counterparts in CAY, with the use of some of the nominalizers seen in lexicalized forms (Jacobson 1995). We demonstrate that the differences between derived nouns and relative-clause counterparts are attributable to the different instantiations of the single process of nominalization–lexical nominalization and grammatical nominalization.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Lexical nominalizations
  • 3.Types and characteristics of CAY nominalizers
  • 4.Grammatical nominalizations
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Morpheme gloss abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 August 2019
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