Transitivity Alternations in North Sámi
In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi cannot be directly read off from the morphology. S...
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ftulundlup:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:6be5996b-e63d-47a8-b453-fdc27a307c58 2023-05-15T17:40:07+02:00 Transitivity Alternations in North Sámi Julien, Marit 2016-10-28 https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/6be5996b-e63d-47a8-b453-fdc27a307c58 https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0021 eng eng De Gruyter Open https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/6be5996b-e63d-47a8-b453-fdc27a307c58 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0021 wos:000397102300014 scopus:85047270486 Open Linguistics; 2(1), pp 400-426 (2016) ISSN: 2300-9969 General Language Studies and Linguistics causative marked anticausative verb phrase syntax verbaliser morphology contributiontojournal/article info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2016 ftulundlup https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0021 2023-02-01T23:34:27Z In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi cannot be directly read off from the morphology. Since the verbalisers have vocalic phonological realisations with some roots but consonantal realisations with others, and since consonantal realisations give the verb an additional syllable, one can get the impression that in some transitivity alternation pairs the transitive verb is derived from the intransitive verb, whereas in other pairs it is the other way round, and that in still other pairs both verbs are derived from a common base.On closer inspection it nevertheless appears that while in some cases the transitive verb is actually formed from the intransitive verb by causativisation, in other cases the transitive verb differs from its intransitive counterpart only in involving a Voice head. In addition, the language has a type of intransitive verb that are marked anticausatives, meaning that they have an expletive Voice head. The main difference between these verbs and the corresponding transitive verbs is the properties of Voice. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Sámi Sámi Lund University Publications (LUP) Open Linguistics 2 1 |
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In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi cannot be directly read off from the morphology. Since the verbalisers have vocalic phonological realisations with some roots but consonantal realisations with others, and since consonantal realisations give the verb an additional syllable, one can get the impression that in some transitivity alternation pairs the transitive verb is derived from the intransitive verb, whereas in other pairs it is the other way round, and that in still other pairs both verbs are derived from a common base.On closer inspection it nevertheless appears that while in some cases the transitive verb is actually formed from the intransitive verb by causativisation, in other cases the transitive verb differs from its intransitive counterpart only in involving a Voice head. In addition, the language has a type of intransitive verb that are marked anticausatives, meaning that they have an expletive Voice head. The main difference between these verbs and the corresponding transitive verbs is the properties of Voice. |
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