Forms of predication in Sakha (Turkic): Will the true lexical predicates please stand up?
Abstract The Turkic language Sakha (Yakut) uses a copular verb with predicate nominals but not with predicate adjectives or verbs in certain environments, including relative clauses, nominalized clauses, and complements to nouns. Previous work takes this as evidence that adjectives but not nouns are...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0008413100004746 2024-06-23T07:56:28+00:00 Forms of predication in Sakha (Turkic): Will the true lexical predicates please stand up? Baker, Mark C. Vinokurova, Nadezda 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100004746 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008413100004746 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique volume 57, issue 2, page 177-207 ISSN 0008-4131 1710-1115 journal-article 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100004746 2024-05-29T08:08:46Z Abstract The Turkic language Sakha (Yakut) uses a copular verb with predicate nominals but not with predicate adjectives or verbs in certain environments, including relative clauses, nominalized clauses, and complements to nouns. Previous work takes this as evidence that adjectives but not nouns are true one-place predicates. However, unaccusativity diagnostics show that adjectives pattern with nouns in Sakha, as in other languages: neither is inherently predicative without a predicative functional head. The need for a copula with predicate nominais in certain environments can be explained using Richards’s distinctiveness condition. Relative clauses, noun complements, and nominalization structures all bring a nominal head in close contact with the predicate. If the predicate itself is nominal, a verbal copula must intervene to separate the predicate from the embedding head of the same category. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakha Yakut Cambridge University Press Sakha Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 57 2 177 207 |
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Abstract The Turkic language Sakha (Yakut) uses a copular verb with predicate nominals but not with predicate adjectives or verbs in certain environments, including relative clauses, nominalized clauses, and complements to nouns. Previous work takes this as evidence that adjectives but not nouns are true one-place predicates. However, unaccusativity diagnostics show that adjectives pattern with nouns in Sakha, as in other languages: neither is inherently predicative without a predicative functional head. The need for a copula with predicate nominais in certain environments can be explained using Richards’s distinctiveness condition. Relative clauses, noun complements, and nominalization structures all bring a nominal head in close contact with the predicate. If the predicate itself is nominal, a verbal copula must intervene to separate the predicate from the embedding head of the same category. |
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Forms of predication in Sakha (Turkic): Will the true lexical predicates please stand up? |
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Forms of predication in Sakha (Turkic): Will the true lexical predicates please stand up? |
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