[Lingtyp] Fwd: typology of verbalization / adjectivalization

William Foley williamafoley at yahoo.com
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> From: William Foley <williamafoley at yahoo.com>
> Date: 24 November 2021 at 16:40:21 GMT-5
> To: Jess Tauber <tetrahedralpt at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re:  [Lingtyp] typology of verbalization / adjectivalization
> 
> There is an issue of IJAL entirely dedicated to this topic from 2008 edited by Gerdts and Marlett.  Verbalisation is much rare than nominalisation hence little literature.  But common in Eskimoan and Northwest Coast languages like Nuu Chah Nulth )tho in latter case is dependent on analysis of the noun verb distinction.
> William
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>>> On 24 Nov 2021, at 16:02, Jess Tauber <tetrahedralpt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> In Yahgan (from Tierra del Fuego), most nominals are derived from verbs or adjectives by addition of dedicated suffixes. But you can also create new verbs by adding suffixes and/or voice prefixes to nominal or adjectival stems. These processes are openly productive. 
>> 
>> For example, you can take the noun/adj. root lvmbi (v stands for schwa) 'dark, black' and add the stative suffix -(v)na to create lvmbi:na 'be black', or the former plus achievement suffix -(a)ta to make lvmbi:nata 'become black' (colon marks tenseness of the vowel preceding it). u:- is a permissive-causative prefix, so u-lvmbi:-na 'let be black', u-lvmbi:-na-ta 'let become black'; tu- causative, so tu:-lvmbi:-na (make be black), tu:-lvmbi:-na-ta (make become black), and so on.  Nominals are treated identically to adjectives.
>> 
>> Jess Tauber
>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 3:13 PM Guillaume Jacques <rgyalrongskad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear Adam,
>>> 
>>> My grammar of Japhug contains a chapter on denominal verbalization (pp 1011-1080). The following articles can also be of interest:
>>> Jacques, Guillaume. 2012. From denominal derivation to incorporation. Lingua 122(11). 1207–1231.
>>> Jacques, Guillaume. 2014. Denominal affixes as sources of antipassive markers in Japhug Rgyalrong. Lingua 138. 1–22.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Guillaume
>>> 
>>>> Le mer. 24 nov. 2021 à 20:54, Adam James Ross Tallman <ajrtallman at utexas.edu> a écrit :
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> 
>>>> One of my students was interested in writing her term paper on verbalizations in Aymara from a typological perspective ... but I actually don't know any work on the typology of verbalizations and internet searches come up with nearly zilch. Strange given there's so much on nominalization...
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone have any leads? Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place.
>>>> 
>>>> best regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Adam
>>>> 
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>>>> Friedrich Schiller Universität
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