[Lingtyp] Question about nominalized verbs

[Åshild Næss]

Hi Keren,

I expect Masha's publications will give you plenty of other examples, but
Äiwoo (Austronesian, Oceanic, Solomon Islands) looks a lot like Arabic
here, with the A argument of the nominalised verb marked by a possessive
form and the O unmarked, as a verbal argument would be:

nyi-wâ-nubo-na nogo-i sii
NMLZ-CAUS-die-NMLZ POSS:TOOL-3AUG fish
'their killing fish'

Best,

Åshild

Åshild Næss

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On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 5:48 PM Keren Ruditsky <krudit at uw.edu> wrote:

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> * Dear everyone, I am working on a master's thesis and I was wondering
> about any cases of languages which have nominalized verbs taking two
> arguments where the argument syntactically closer to the nominalized verb
> is marked like the argument of a noun, and the one syntactically further is
> marked like the argument of a verb. One example of such a language might be
> Standard Arabic where, as shown below, the subject of a nominalized verb
> zayd-in ‘Zayd-GEN’ is marked with genitive case (which is the case used to
> mark a nominal possessor) while the object  camr-an ‘Amr-ACC’ is marked
> with accusative case (which is the case used for typical verbal objects).
> ntiqaad-u                 zayd-in            camr-an criticizing-NOM
> Zayd-GEN       Amr-ACC “Zayd’s criticizing Amr” (Fassi Fehri 1993: 223f)
> Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader. 1993. Issues in the structure of Arabic clauses
> and *
> *words. Dordrecht: Kluwer*
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> *Thank you,*
> *Keren*
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