Some insights on the clause linker -teh of Sakhalin Ainu through a consideration of aspect

• Main Author: Elia Dal Corso
• Other Authors: E. Ragagnin, B. Khabtagaeva, DAL CORSO, Elia
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Brill 2022
• Subjects: Settore L-OR/22 - Lingue e Letterature del Giappone e della Corea; Settore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia e Linguistica; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10278/3742782; https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004503502_005

This paper attempts to advance the investigation on clause linkers of Sakhalin Ainu, which are a vastly under-studied topic of Ainu grammar. In this paper I focus on the linker -teh and, more precisely, I will take into account the two semantically analogous aspectual constructions V+-teh ‘an and V+‘an to show how the linker -teh (or lack thereof) contributes to their, in fact, different functions. While I try to deepen our understanding of the SA aspectual system by looking at the two above-mentioned constructions and arguing for their status as markers of (im)perfectivity, I will eventually propose the analysis of -teh as a subordinate linker.