Contact vs. independent grammaticalization in the development of areal features: Converbs of generic verbs of speech in north-eastern Siberia

• Main Authors: Matic, D., Pakendorf, Brigitte
• Format: Lecture
• Language: English
• Subjects: Evenki; Koryak; Sakha; Tundra; Tungusic languages; Yakut; Yukaghir; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000F-EC72-C

The use of a converb of a generic verb of speech as a quotative marker with further development to complementizers is highly frequent in some of the languages of northern Eurasia. It is well-known from the Turkic language family (Johanson1998), as well as from the Mongolic language Buryat (Skribnik...