|
The functions of the so-called suffix of alienable possession in Negidal and Even (Northern Tungusic)| old_uid | 18594 |
|---|
| title | The functions of the so-called suffix of alienable possession in Negidal and Even (Northern Tungusic) |
|---|
| start_date | 2020/12/15 |
|---|
| schedule | 10h-12h |
|---|
| online | no |
|---|
| location_info | salle Ennat Léger |
|---|
| details | dans le cadre des séminaires DDL : Atelier Morphosyntaxe |
|---|
| summary | We investigate the marking and semantics of possessive relations in Negidal, a Northern Tungusic language spoken in the Lower Amur region of Russia. The main means to express this relation are the person-number possessive markers. These are used in possessive head-marked constructions, e.g olo imukse-nin (fish fat-px.3sg) ‘fish fat’, but in connected speech the possessor can be understood from the context and is thus frequently omitted. In addition, like other Tungusic languages Negidal has a special marker - i, which is called a marker of alienable, or indirect, possession in descriptions of these languages (Cincius 1982: 20, Nedjalkov 1997: 144-5, Nikolaeva & Tolskaja 2001: 111, Avrorin 1959: 155). Its main function is to mark possession (in a broad sense) of non-possessible entities, e.g. with indirectly possessed body parts: imukse- i-l-nin (fat-aln-pl-px.3sg) ‘his pieces of fat (of some animal)’, with objects of nature: beja- - aj sol ki (river-aln-prfl.pl upriver) ‘up (their) river’; or proper names: ivan- i-tin (Ivan-aln-px.3pl) ‘their Ivan (from their family)’. In this presentation, we will describe the functions of the possessive markers and discuss which noun classes require the ‘alienable’ suffix, which semantic nuances it might add, and what further extensions of the so-called alienable possession can be observed in our corpus. |
|---|
| responsibles | Coupé |
|---|
| |
|