[Lingtyp] Items that make frequency/rate/tempo modifiers from nouns

[Elizabeth Coppock]

Dear all,

Many thanks to those who responded to my query. Here is a belated and messy
summary of what I have been able to dig up so far:

language form references notes
Russian po Haspelmath (1997) p. 50
distributive preposition
Swedish om Haspelmath (1997) p. 50
Polish na Haspelmath (1997) p. 50
Tagalog kung Haspelmath (1997) p. 50 lit. 'when'
Udmurt byde Haspelmath (1997) p. 50
distributive preposition
Hixkaryana rye Haspelmath (1997) p. 50
gloss 'uniformly the same'
Hixkaryana yohI Haspelmath (1997) p. 50 gloss 'regularly'
Turkish -leyin Haspelmath (1997) p. 51
special suffix 'regularly'
Abkhaz es- Haspelmath (1997) p. 51, Hewitt 1979:146 (cited in
Haspelmath) special
prefix
Abkhaz -la Haspelmath (1997) p. 51, Hewitt 1979:146 (cited in Haspelmath)
Instrumental case
Greenlandic Eskimo -kkut Haspelmath (1997) p. 51, Fortescue 1984:240 (cited
in Haspelmath)
Presecutive case
Cape Verdean reduplicated N Baptista (2002)
<https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.54> p. 43
e.g. bárku-bárku 'boat by boat'
Jamsay (Dogon) reduplicated N Heath (2008)
<https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110207224/html?lang=en>
p. 322
e.g. wood-inst wood-inst 'by kind of wood'
Neo-Aramaic kut Khan (2008) <https://brill.com/view/title/17807>p. 884 glossed
"every"
Wolof N-oo-N Keenan & Paperno (2012)
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9>
Dan SwEEtaa (South Mande) N-oo-N Keenan & Paperno (2012)
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9>
Keenan & Paperno (2012)
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9>
Mandinka N-oo-N
Nungo N-no N-no Keenan & Paperno (2012)
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9>
e.g. yara-no yara-no 'year after year'
Estonian -ti Ylikoski (2019)
<http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/nbnfi-fe202002125279.pdf>
dwarf case http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/nbnfi-fe202002125279.pdf
Finnish -ttain/-ttäin Ylikoski (2019)
Thank you Johanna Laakso
Russian ezhe-
>From Anton Kukhto: "[I]t attaches to words denoting time periods, the
derivative meaning 'every X'. For instance, den' 'day' — ezhednevnyj
'daily' (adj) and ezhednevno (adv); nedelja 'week' — ezhenedel'nyj 'weekly'
(adj) and ezhenedel'no (adv), etc. I'm hesitating to say it attaches to
nouns because it seems to require the adjectivising suffix -n (or perhaps,
whatever adjectivising suffix the nominal root in question takes, which in
the cases that come to mind happens to be -n), ie nedel-ja 'week' —
nedel'-n-yj 'week-long, pertaining to week' — ezhe-nedel'-n-yj 'weekly'."
Bardi reduplicated N Bowern (2012)
<https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110278187/html?lang=en>
bardagardag 'tree by tree'
Malagasy reduplicated N Keenan & Paperno (2012)
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9>
Keenan & Paperno (2012)
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-2681-9>
Coptic qpe (sp??) Cerny (2012)
<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/coptic-etymological-dictionary/9CBBF0535DCC7F7C6F73E651BFC7181C>
distributive preposition "per month"

There is much more to do, clearly, but this is progress! Thanks again!

Liz


On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 1:58 PM Elizabeth Coppock <eecoppock at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am working on compiling a list of lexical items (words, affixes, or
> constructions) that take a noun and produce an adverb that expresses a
> frequency, rate, or tempo. Examples include:
>
> - English -ly as in "daily", "monthly" (which seems to be limited to a
> small set of time expressions in the relevant usage; *He gave a playly
> breakdown of the game.)
> - The English "X-by-X" construction, as in "day by day", "brick by brick"
> (instances of which have been described as "pluractional adverbials")
> - Hungarian -nként as in "naponként" 'daily', "hektaronként" 'by hectare"
> - Reduplicated nouns in Hebrew as in "yom yom" 'day [by] day', or "mizvada
> mizvada 'suitcase [by] suitcase' (Gil 1995)
>
> What I'm looking for could be described as "items that create pluractional
> adverbials when combined with a noun", where the noun specifies some
> increment at which the event type in question takes place. Googling
> "pluractional adverbials" does not produce a lot of results outside of
> English, so I wonder if there is a better term to search by.
>
> (Pluractionality markers that go on verbs and reduplicated numerals would
> not fit the description, but a lot of reduplicated nouns probably would.)
>
> Any and all leads would be most appreciated. Thank you very much in
> advance.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Liz Coppock
> Department of Linguistics
> Boston University
>


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