Deconstructing North Sámi sensive verbs
North Sámi has a class of derived verbs called sensive verbs. Descriptively, these verbs are formed by adding the suffix /ʃ/ to an adjectival or nominal base, and the resulting verb means ‘find [object] (too) ADJECTIVE/NOUN’. In this paper it is argued that the sensive verbs do not involve any psych...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:052e7eb8-feb5-4da1-b623-a40bd9f47855 2023-05-15T17:40:07+02:00 Deconstructing North Sámi sensive verbs Julien, Marit 2021-06-30 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/052e7eb8-feb5-4da1-b623-a40bd9f47855 https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1316 eng eng Ubiquity Press Ltd. https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/052e7eb8-feb5-4da1-b623-a40bd9f47855 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1316 scopus:85110554741 Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; 6(1), pp 1-17 (2021) ISSN: 2397-1835 General Language Studies and Linguistics North Sámi sensive verbs derived verbs stative verbaliser experiencer subject contributiontojournal/article info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftulundlup https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1316 2023-02-01T23:37:50Z North Sámi has a class of derived verbs called sensive verbs. Descriptively, these verbs are formed by adding the suffix /ʃ/ to an adjectival or nominal base, and the resulting verb means ‘find [object] (too) ADJECTIVE/NOUN’. In this paper it is argued that the sensive verbs do not involve any psychological verb, and the suffix is not specified as “sensive” in the lexicon. Rather, the suffix is specified as a realisation of a stative verbaliser in a transitive structure. The interpretation of the verb and the experiencer role of the subject follow from this specification in combination with the syntax of the verb phrase as a whole, which has a stative verbaliser and a Voice head on top of a minimal aP or nP. Other vocabulary items that could spell out the stative verbaliser are prevented from appearing in the sensive verb phrase, since the conditions for inserting them are not met. The consequence is that the suffix /ʃ/ is restricted to sensive verbs. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Sámi Sámi Lund University Publications (LUP) Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6 1 |
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North Sámi has a class of derived verbs called sensive verbs. Descriptively, these verbs are formed by adding the suffix /ʃ/ to an adjectival or nominal base, and the resulting verb means ‘find [object] (too) ADJECTIVE/NOUN’. In this paper it is argued that the sensive verbs do not involve any psychological verb, and the suffix is not specified as “sensive” in the lexicon. Rather, the suffix is specified as a realisation of a stative verbaliser in a transitive structure. The interpretation of the verb and the experiencer role of the subject follow from this specification in combination with the syntax of the verb phrase as a whole, which has a stative verbaliser and a Voice head on top of a minimal aP or nP. Other vocabulary items that could spell out the stative verbaliser are prevented from appearing in the sensive verb phrase, since the conditions for inserting them are not met. The consequence is that the suffix /ʃ/ is restricted to sensive verbs. |
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