Split causativity : remarks on correlations between transitivity, aspect, and tense
This paper deals with some typologically remarkable features of the early Vedic verbal system. Forms belonging to the present tense system are mostly employed in transitive-causative constructions, whereas forms of the perfect tense system are typically intransitive. Similar correlations between ten...
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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:01GMNHFMQ9ZCJC8PF6BWTHRE83 2023-10-01T03:49:58+02:00 Split causativity : remarks on correlations between transitivity, aspect, and tense Kulikov, Leonid Abraham, Werner Kulikov, Leonid 1999 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01GMNHFMQ9ZCJC8PF6BWTHRE83 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GMNHFMQ9ZCJC8PF6BWTHRE83 https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.50.06kul https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01GMNHFMQ9ZCJC8PF6BWTHRE83/file/01GMNJ8MYYXKAR7KRN0M8XE2QB eng eng John Benjamins https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01GMNHFMQ9ZCJC8PF6BWTHRE83 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GMNHFMQ9ZCJC8PF6BWTHRE83 http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.50.06kul https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01GMNHFMQ9ZCJC8PF6BWTHRE83/file/01GMNJ8MYYXKAR7KRN0M8XE2QB No license (in copyright) info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Tense-aspect, transitivity and causativity : essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov ISSN: 0165-7763 ISBN: 9027230536 ISBN: 9789027230539 ISBN: 9789027298720 Languages and Literatures Vedic perfect transitivity aspect causative present tense split causativity Greek semantic transitivity aktionsart actionality bookChapter info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1999 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.50.06kul 2023-09-06T22:23:28Z This paper deals with some typologically remarkable features of the early Vedic verbal system. Forms belonging to the present tense system are mostly employed in transitive-causative constructions, whereas forms of the perfect tense system are typically intransitive. Similar correlations between tense/aspect and transitivity can also be found in some other, genetically unrelated languages, such as Yukaghir and Aleut. The aim of the paper is threefold. First, attention is drawn to correlations between the two groups of apparently unrelated grammatical categories, i.e. tense, aspect, and aktionsarten, on the one hand, and transitivity and causativity, on the other (sections 1–3). In section 4 correlations are discussed between the transitivity/causativity and present/perfect oppositions in the Vedic verbal system, and in section 5 the parallel phenomena in Ancient Greek, within a broader Indo-European perspective. This correlation (labelled ‘split causativity’ in the present paper) provides us with further evidence for an approach to transitivity as a set of independent features and, additionally, can clarify the status and function of some “hybrid” formations, such as forms derived from perfect stems with present tense endings (section 6). Book Part aleut Yukaghir Ghent University Academic Bibliography 21 |
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This paper deals with some typologically remarkable features of the early Vedic verbal system. Forms belonging to the present tense system are mostly employed in transitive-causative constructions, whereas forms of the perfect tense system are typically intransitive. Similar correlations between tense/aspect and transitivity can also be found in some other, genetically unrelated languages, such as Yukaghir and Aleut. The aim of the paper is threefold. First, attention is drawn to correlations between the two groups of apparently unrelated grammatical categories, i.e. tense, aspect, and aktionsarten, on the one hand, and transitivity and causativity, on the other (sections 1–3). In section 4 correlations are discussed between the transitivity/causativity and present/perfect oppositions in the Vedic verbal system, and in section 5 the parallel phenomena in Ancient Greek, within a broader Indo-European perspective. This correlation (labelled ‘split causativity’ in the present paper) provides us with further evidence for an approach to transitivity as a set of independent features and, additionally, can clarify the status and function of some “hybrid” formations, such as forms derived from perfect stems with present tense endings (section 6). |
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Split causativity : remarks on correlations between transitivity, aspect, and tense |
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