accusative + analytical DO markers
Sergey Lyosov
sergelyosov at INBOX.RU
Sat May 25 19:20:25 UTC 2013
Dear Ewa,
thanks a lot!
Your Polish example is as follows:
- zaatakować ‘attack, assault’ + NPACC
- napaść ‘attack, assault’ + preposition na with a NPACC (a grammaticalized allative construction).
The cognate Russian verbs have the same government:
atakovat' ‘attack, assault’ + NPACC
napast' ‘attack, assault’ + preposition na with a NPACC
Our colleague Scott T. Shell suggests me (within this thread) a similar example from
German:
Den Mann habe ich gesehen.
DEF.ACC man AUX 1SG.NOM saw
'I say the man.'
Ich gehe durch den Gang
1SG.NOM go through DEF.ACC hallway
'I go through the hallway.'
Yet neither Polish/Russian na nor German durch are Direct Object Markers pure and simple, they both retain their meanings as lative/locative prepositions. What I am looking for is a “pure” and (under certain conditions) obligatory Direct Object Marker (like `et in Hebrew) which synchronically has no other (more concrete) meanings. I wonder if this kind of DOM is at all compatible with ACC (which would amount to double marking of the Direct Object).
I will address your Coptic example in the next email.
All best,
Sergey
Суббота, 25 мая 2013, 16:37 UTC от "Zakrzewska, E.D." <E.D.Zakrzewska at uva.nl>:
>Dear Sergey,
>
>A good example is Polish, compare:
>- zaatakować ‘attack, assault’ + NPACC
>- napaść ‘attack, assault’ + preposition na with a NPACC (a grammaticalized allative construction).
>
>Another example may be Coptic (Afroasiatic, the final stage of Ancient Egyptian). In Coptic there are two strategies
to mark the direct object: head-marking and dependent-marking. Head-marking involves the use of the so-called construct or pronominal state allomorph of the verb to which a nominal, respectively pronominal direct object is attached.
When the verb appears in the absolute state allomorph, dependent-marking of the object by means of a preposition is required.
Several prepositions can occur in this function, of which n- (dedicated preposition) and e- (grammaticalization of the allative) are most important.
>Basic information about Coptic grammar can be found in Reintges C.H., Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic dialect): a learner's grammar , Köln: Köppe, 2004. I’m currently working on a comprehensive article on transitivity in Coptic, to
be published in the Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies in Rome and I can send you a copy soon.
>
>Best regards,
>Ewa Zakrzewska
>
>
>
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>Verzonden: vrijdag 24 mei 2013 19:35
>To: LINGTYP at listserv.linguistlist.org
>Onderwerp: accusative + analytical DO markers
>
>Dear colleagues,
>Do we know of languages that have both the accusative case and analytical direct object markers (pre- or postpositions)?
>Lots of thanks,
>Sergey
>Dr. Sergey Loesov
>Oriental Institute
>Russian State University for the Humanities
>6 Miusskaya pl. Moscow 125267, Russia.
>
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