32.1053, Books: On the origin of Kartvelian version: Tuite

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:08:46
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: On the origin of Kartvelian version: Tuite

 


Title: On the origin of Kartvelian version 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Caucasian Linguistics 22  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSCL-22-On-the-origin-of-Kartvelian-version/en 


Author: Kevin Tuite

Paperback: ISBN:  9783969390375 Pages: 62 Price: Europe EURO 48.80


Abstract:

Among the categories marked in the Kartvelian verb is one that grammarians
designate as "version", linked to a vowel prefix directly preceding the verb
root (preradical vowel, PRV). In textbook examples, the PRVs have an
applicative-like function, indicating the addition of an overt indirect
object, or an implicit reflexive coreferent with the subject. PRVs also mark
particular types of intransitives, and in many verbs the PRV is lexically
specified. In this essay, all contexts in which PRVs appear will be presented,
including nonfinite verb forms and a small number of archaic deverbal nouns
with frozen PRVs. It will be argued that PRVs originally signalled a contrast
in verbal trajectory between an inward (introvert) orientation toward the
deictic center, associated with presupposability, animacy, and the 1st and 2nd
persons; and an outward (extravert) orientation away from the deictic center
toward a target or surface — associated with patienthood and inanimacy.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Kartvelian


Written In: English  (eng)

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