Indirectivity and resultativity in Tundra Nenets

• Published in: Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen
• Main Author: Jalava, Lotta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura / Société Finno-Ougrienne / Finno-Ugrian Society / Finnisch-Ugrische Gesellschaft 2014
• Subjects: nenets; Tundra
• Online Access: https://journal.fi/fuf/article/view/86080

This article deals with indirective and resultative predicates in Tundra Nenets. The focus is on two different categories of verbal inflection marked with the suffix -we, the resultative past participle and the narrative mood. The article discusses the functions, syntactic properties and common origin of these two predicate structures. It will be argued that the narrative mood developed from the past participle predicate in an earlier stage of the Nenets languages through reanalysis of the resultative predicate as a perfect/evidential form and transition of the non-finite predicate into a finite conjugation.