[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 70, Issue 19

Tue Jul 21 15:45:02 UTC 2020

Hi, Ian

Salishan and Wakashan languages are well-known for this, particularly in regards to the use of person-indexes and tense/mood markers on non-verbal predicates, and the appearance of tense and mood like morphemes attached to nouns in other syntactic roles. This is also seen in the neighbouring Tsimshianic and Chimakuan languages, making it an areal pattern.

Cheers,

David

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>   1. Re: Verb-like nominal inflection (Johanna Laakso)
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> From: Johanna Laakso <johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at>
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> Dear Ian, dear all,
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> verb-like inflection (tense and person marking) of nominal predicates is a well-known phenomenon in two (sub)branches of Uralic, Mordvin (Erzya/Moksha) and Samoyedic. 
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> See Rigina Turunen’s (now: Ajanki) PhD thesis on nonverbal predication in Erzya (http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-6277-3 <http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-6277-3>) and Lotta Jalava's PhD thesis which touches upon the issue of nonverbal predication in Samoyedic (http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-1314-6 <http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-51-1314-6> ), both with numerous further references. For Samoyedic, see also Wagner-Nagy & Viola 2009 (https://www.sgr.fi/en/items/show/1009 <https://www.sgr.fi/en/items/show/1009> ).
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> From: David Gil <gil at shh.mpg.de>
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> Ian,
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> As stated, your query is probably too broad and needs to be narrowed 
> down somewhat.  Off the top of my head I can think of several examples 
> where "nouns can be inflected like verbs", but none of them are much 
> like each other or like Galela.
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> 1. In Hebrew, the present tense of the verb, historically a participial 
> form, agrees with its subject in number and gender using precisely the 
> same forms, e.g.
> 
> Hayeladim oxlim
> DEF:child:PLM eat:PRS:PLM
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> where the PLM suffix is -im for both noun and verb.
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> 2. In Indonesian, reduplication marks plurality on both nouns and verbs 
> (where for verbs it can be interpreted either as iterativity or as 
> marking the plurality of an associated argument).
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> 3. In Roon (SHWNG, Austronesian), nouns and verbs are indexed for 
> person, number and animacy using the exact same markers, the only 
> difference being that for nouns, the index occurs on an enclitic article 
> =ya whereas for verbs it occurs on the verb stem itself, e.g.
> 
> Bunmuya mura
> woman:2DU:DEF 2DU:go
> 'You two women are going'
> 
> where it's the same 2nd person dual prefix mu- marking both the article 
> -ya and the verb -ra.  (Note that this is not a case of agreement, as in 
> the Hebrew above, because in Roon, the subject and the verb don't have 
> to agree.)
> 
> But you probably mean something more specific than this, I'm guessing ...
> 
> David
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> On 21/07/2020 18:10, Joo, Ian wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>> 
>> In Galela (West Papuan), nouns can be inflected like verbs, as 
>> illustrated below:
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>> I would like to know if this is a cross-linguistically common 
>> phenomenon, and if so, what other languages show similar patterns.
>> 
>> From Hong Kong,
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>> Ian
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