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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822398803321

Autore

Nedi͡alkov V. P (Vladimir Petrovich)

Titolo

Syntax of the Nivkh language : the Amur dialect / / Vladimir P. Nedjalkov, Galina A. Otaina ; translated from Russian by Emma Š. Geniušiene ; edited by Emma Š. Geniušiene and Ekaterina Gruzdeva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Pub. Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7140-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series (SLCS), , 0165-7763 ; ; volume 139

Altri autori (Persone)

OtainaG. A (Galina Aleksandrovna)

Geni͡usheneĖ. Sh (Ėmma Shirii͡azdanovna)

GruzdevaEkaterina

Disciplina

494/.6

Soggetti

Gilyak language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This publication is a translation from Russian of the Syntaksis nivxskogo jazyka (Syntax of the Nivkh Language) Amurskij dialekt (The Amur dialect).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

A Syntax of the Nivkh Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Pictures of the authors; Table of contents; Foreword; Foreword; Abbreviations; Introductory notes; 1.1 Grammatical markers. Word classes; 1.2 Syntax; 1.3 Morphology of the verb; 1.4 Morphology of the noun; 1.5 Phonetics; 1.6 Morphonology; Bound and free complexes; Free and bound word variants; Morphological and syntactic complexes. Attributive and object complexes; Extended morphological complexes; Personal and reflexive pronouns; Basic rules of alternation of plosives and fricatives; Special types of alternations

10.3 Variants with the initial components j-/i-/e- (over 140 transitives)10.3.1 Two-member variants: J-/i-/e- alternate with Ø or -h-; 10.3.2 Two-member variants with consonant alternation; 10.3.3 Three-member variants with consonant alternation; 10.3.4 Four-member variants with consonant alternation; 10.3.5 Individual variants; 10.4 Transitives with the initial consonant v-; 10.5 Exceptions; 10.6 Verbs with the component hur-; The attribute + noun complex. Alternation of initial consonants of nouns and verbs in attributive position; 11.1



Pronouns and nouns used as attributes

11.2 Intransitive verbs of action used as attributes11.3 Qualitative verbs used as attributes; 11.4 Transitive verbs used as attributes; 11.4.1 The head word of an attributive complex is a subject; 11.4.2 The head word of an attributive complex is an object; 11.4.2.1 A transitive verb changes its initial consonant; 11.4.2.2 A transitive verb does not change its initial consonant; 11.5 The head word corresponds to an oblique object or an adverbial; The verbal finite predicate; The nominal predicate; Converbs; 14.1 Converbs marked for subject agreement; 14.1.1 The converb in -r, -t

14.1.2 The converb in -ror, -tot14.1.3 The converb in -ra, -ta; 14.2 Same-subject, different-subject and variable-subject converbs; 14.3 Converbs marked for tense; 14.4 Converbs expressing purely temporal (taxis) relations and converbs with other meanings; 14.4.1 Converbs expressing purely temporal relations; 14.4.2 Converbs expressing non-temporal relations; 14.5 Syntactic relations of converbs; Coordination of homogeneous predicates; 15.1 The finite verb form as a homogeneous predicate; 15.2 The converb in -r, -t (see 14.1.1); 15.3 The converb in -ra, -ta (see 14.1.3); The noun

16.1 Plural marking

Sommario/riassunto

This volume, originally published in Russian in 2012, is one of the few larger works on Nivkh (Gilyak), an underinvestigated endangered Paleosiberian language-isolate, that have appeared lately. It is a descriptive grammar based on extensive language data and supplemented with the authors' experiments and subtle analysis, aimed at elucidating some moot points of the highly specific Nivkh syntax, and with quantitave data. It focuses on syntactic and semantic types of verbs and their aspectual and temporal characteristics, various groups of verbal grammatical morphemes, the use of finite and non