ティンリン語、ネク語(ニューカレドニア)の叙述所有構造

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  • ティンリンゴ 、 ネクゴ(ニューカレドニア)ノ ジョジュツ ショユウ コウゾウ
  • Morphosyntactic Features of Predicative Possession in Tinrin and Neku
公開日
2017-01-01
資源種別
departmental bulletin paper
公開者
東京 : 東京女子大学比較文化研究所

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This paper discusses the structures of predicative possession in Tinrin and Neku, focusing particularly on the syntactic and semantic properties of the Tinrin verb fwi and its corresponding verbs in Neku. Fwi can occur both as an intransitive or a transitive verb, with some rather peculiar stative and active uses, while there is no such ubiquitous verb in Neku. In examining morphemes involved in related constructions in both languages, we can see a likely path of semantic development, a relationship between different constructions involving predicative possession and a process for forming more typical alienable possession.

The expression of predicative possession in both languages is based on existential sentences with a NP (possessor) in a prepositional phrase, which is topicalized in the sentence-initial position as in the following Neku sentence. A pronominal anaphora to the topicalized possessor is substituted in the position where the possessor NP was originally.

djan è (tò) ui pè?ari ghi è

Jean 3sg stay exist elder_brother of 3sg

‘Jean has an elder brother (lit. Jean, there is an elder brother of him).’

While any kind of NPs possibly possessed can occur in this construction, a construction using the possessive verb tòpè has been found in Neku, which may be a later development, and is used only for ‘alienable possession’. Interestingly, some NPs are attested to occur in both existential sentences and tòpè sentences, reflecting a semantic difference in the degree of inalienability.

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