Polysemy and apparent polyfunctionality of the Sakhalin Ainu prefixes e- and ko-: Insights on applicativization and aspect
The present study focuses on the polysemous verbal prefixes e- and ko- of Sakhalin Ainu and proposes their analysis as markers of high transitivity. The author takes a compositional approach to argument structure and event structure in order to account for the main use of e- and ko- as applicative m...
| Published in: | International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10278/3744318 https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00320003 |
| Summary: | The present study focuses on the polysemous verbal prefixes e- and ko- of Sakhalin Ainu and proposes their analysis as markers of high transitivity. The author takes a compositional approach to argument structure and event structure in order to account for the main use of e- and ko- as applicative markers as well as for their less common use as markers of resultative-completive and intensive aspect. Ultimately, the analysis shows that the apparent polyfunctionality of e- and ko- arises from two separate applications at the syntax-semantics level of one same underlying function of the prefixes. The author also comments on how the Sakhalin Ainu case fits in with other cases of valence-aspect conceptual overlapping cross-linguistically and on the implications of his findings for Ainu studies specifically. |
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