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- Title
Nominalization and relativization in Tujia: A crosslinguistic perspective.
- Authors
Man, Lu; Liu, Zhengguang; Weijer, Jeroen van de
- Abstract
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of nominalization and relativization in Tujia from a typological perspective. We show that there are several nominalizers in Tujia, only two of which are multifunctional: ɕi and ɲie. ɕi can function as a nominalizer, a relativizer, a complementizer, a converbal clause marker or a stance marker. ɲie can function as a genitive marker, a nominalizer, a relative clause marker, a non-relative attributive marker or a stance marker. Relative clauses in Tujia can be head internal and pre-nominal. The head internal relative clauses are marked by ɕi, while the pre-nominal relative clauses are marked by ɲie. We point out that ɲie manifests typical genitive-relative-nominalization syncretism, whereas ɕi manifests extended nominalization functions, both of which are widely attested in other Tibeto-Burman languages. We argue that ɕi originates from a general noun, of unknown etymology. The nominalizer ɲie originates from a genitive marker. These findings should prove useful to future typological or comparative research with respect to nominalization in Tibeto-Burman languages.
- Subjects
TIBETO-Burman languages; RELATIVE clauses; NOMINALS (Grammar); LINGUISTIC typology; VERBS
- Publication
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0731-3500
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ltba.16021.man