24.1876, Qs: 'Be' as Source of (Action) Nominalization

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Subject: 24.1876, Qs: 'Be' as Source of (Action) Nominalization

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:28:58
From: Andrea Sansò [asanso at gmail.com]
Subject: 'Be' as Source of (Action) Nominalization

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Dear LINGUIST List members,

In Paumari the nominalized form of the verb (verbal noun) is marked by the
suffix –hi, which is said to be clearly related with the verb meaning 'be'
(Chapman & Derbyshire 1991: 180-181, 240). I wonder whether there are any
other languages in which the verb 'be' is (reconstructed to be) the source of
nominalizing morphology.

Could anyone help by providing data from languages you're familiar with and/or
pointing to existing literature?

I will post a summary if the results prove to be interesting.

Thanks for any information,

Andrea Sansò
 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Typology






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