PATTERNS OF NOMINALIZATION IN NUMIC

PATTERNS OF NOMINALIZATION IN NUMIC

I examine deverbal nominalization in the Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan and reconstruct an inventory of nominalizer suffixes for Proto-Numic. While some of the protoforms have been supplanted in the daughter languages, others have not changed at all. I attribute this difference in stability to a distin...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of American linguistics 2010, Vol.76 (1), p.71-100
1. Verfasser: TOOSARVANDANI, Maziar
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Diachrony and historical linguistics
Grammar
Linguistics
Native languages
Native North Americans
Nouns
Numic languages
Proto languages
Suffixes
Uto-Aztecan languages
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Zusammenfassung:I examine deverbal nominalization in the Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan and reconstruct an inventory of nominalizer suffixes for Proto-Numic. While some of the protoforms have been supplanted in the daughter languages, others have not changed at all. I attribute this difference in stability to a distinction between the nomenclative and constructional functions of nominalization. The data for this study, compiled from a survey of dictionaries and grammars, comprises some 2,000 forms and is included in an online appendix. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0020-7071
1545-7001
DOI:10.1086/652755