[Lingtyp] From causal to complement markers

[Jess Tauber]

In Yahgan (genetic isolate, Tierra del Fuego), the free verb a:kina  (colon
marks tenseness of vowel preceding it, -na is a verbalizer) means 'do,
make, work'. Suffixes -a, -a:ki are multifunctional. One use is as
instrumental, another marks result of some action. -da/ -da:gi mark 'like
X'. Then there is verb suffix -da:gia 'because, as' as well as free form
tasaia, ta:saia 'as, like, in the same way as'.  And suffix -ata marks
Aktsionsart, especially semelfactive (the start or ending of some action).
All these forms seem to be historically interrelated, but there is no way
to surely do an internal reconstruction currently.

Jess Tauber

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 1:29 PM tiritiri trauntraun <hernaitz at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I’m interested in finding examples of languages for which it might be
> assumed (either tacitly or explicitly) that elements marking complement
> clauses are directly derived from markers of causal clauses, as in (1) and
> (2):
>
>               Hausa (Chadic, Afroasiatic). Abdoulaye 2008.
>
> (1)  *Dà* su-kèe tsòoro-n à kaamàa su, sun gudù.
>
>        *as* 3p-RI fear-of imp.SBJ arrest 3p 3p.CPL flee
>
>        '*As* they are afraid of being arrested, they fled.'
>
> (2)  Naa yi màamaakìi *dà* su-kèe fìtaa dà wuri.
>
>       1s.CPL do surprise *as* 3p-RI go.out at early
>
>       'I am surprised *that* they go out early.'
>
>
> For Hausa, Abdoulaye assumes that *dà* in (2) functions as a
> complementizer, and that this is a ‘secondary’ extension from a causal
> source (1). Similar interpretations can be found for Latin (*quod*, *quia*)
> or for a number of Semitic languages (e.g., Hebrew, Amharic or Akkadian).
> Schmidtke-Bode (2014) also mentions other possible cases, like Epena Pedee.
>
>
> I’d be very grateful to hear about any other potential cases, no matter
> how loose these assumptions might be or how restricted to a small number of
> semantic context or complement-taking predicates.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Rodrigo Hernáiz
>
> Lecturer in Languages and Linguistics
>
> School of Languages and Applied Linguistics
>
> The Open University
>
> rodrigo.hernaiz-gomez at open.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
>
> Abdoulaye, M. L. (2008). *Origin of relative marking in Hausa*. (
> https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00259490)
>
> Schmidtke-Bode, K. (2014). *Complement clauses and complementation
> systems: A cross-linguistic study of grammatical organization* (Doctoral
> dissertation, Thüringer Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Jena).
>
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