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- Title
ON THE INNOVATIVE NATURE OF SAKHALIN AINU: FOCUSING ON NOMINALIZATION.
- Authors
Bugaeva, Anna
- Abstract
This paper focuses on the innovative nature of Sakhalin Ainu with respect to nominalization. Based on a cross-dialectal comparison, I suggest that zeronominalization [(np...) V]NP reflects the oldest stage (I), while the strategy of adding a nominalizing word [(np...) V nmz]NP, which proliferates in Hokkaido Ainu, may be regarded as the next stage (II). Finally, in Sakhalin Ainu, nonfinite verbal forms containing possessive-style marking [(np...) V-poss]NP (III), which can also be used as non-embedded (finite) structures [(np...) V-poss]MC (IV) in a broad range of presuppositional contexts, may be regarded as the last and most innovative stage.
- Subjects
SAKHALIN (Sakhalinskaia oblast', Russia); HOKKAIDO (Japan); AINU language; TRANSITIVITY (Grammar); MORPHOLOGY (Grammar); DIALECTS; POSSESSIVES (Grammar)
- Publication
Studia Orientalia (0039-3282), 2016, Issue 4, p95
- ISSN
0039-3282
- Publication type
Article