Sakha (Yakut) Verbal Inflectional Forms and Their Syntactic Functions

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  • サハ語の動詞屈折形式とその統語機能
  • サハゴ ノ ドウシ クッセツ ケイシキ ト ソノ トウゴ キノウ

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Sakha verbal inflectional forms are traditionally divided into three classes: finite verbs, participles, and converbs.It is very salient in Sakha that this classification is strongly related to the syntactic functions of these classes. Some participles may appear as the predicate of a main clause, which is the only case towhich therelation between form and functiondoes not apply.Sakha participles can contain verbal grammatical categories such as polarity, tense, and person/number;Sakha converbs also exhibitpolarity and person/number. Compared with these inflectional forms, deverbal nounshave fewerverbal properties; specifically,theycannot contain polarity or person/number, although they can retain the valencyof the base verb.

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  • 北方言語研究

    北方言語研究 3 11-23, 2013-03-25

    北海道大学大学院文学研究科

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