Possessive and transitive in Eskimo

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10140705
AutoresJacob Mey, Jacob Louis Mey (0000-0003-0116-4149, The University of Texas at Austin, autor de correspondencia)
Año1970
Volumen6
Número1
Páginas47-56
Fecha de publicación1970-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022226700002358
OpenAlexW2144417651
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas4

The purpose of this paper is to give an account of some hitherto unexplained phenomena connected with the use of the Eskimo ‘relative case’. A deep structure is proposed that not only will account for the occurrence of certain surface morphemes, but also, and in a natural way, for the semantic affinities that exist between certain types of noun phrases and the transitive sentence in Eskimo. In particular, it is shown that in phrases of the type ‘the man's house’, there exists evidence for considering ‘man’ as the subject noun phrase, ‘house’ as the object noun phrase of some deep structure. The transformational machinery involved in deriving the correct surface structures is shown in some detail. A discussion of older terminology in Eskimo grammatical tradition provides additional, indirect confirmation of the naturalness of the proposed explanation

Combinatorics · Dative case · Diminutive · Linguistics · Morpheme · Natural (archaeology · Naturalness · Nominalization · Noun · Noun phrase · Object (grammar · Physics · Possessive · Sentence · Subject (documents · Transitive relation · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation