Adverbial Subordinator Prefixes

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ID19522958
AuthorsMatthew S Dryer (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume17
Issue1
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Discovery (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-0852 • E-ISSN: 1537-0852
PublisherDartmouth College Library Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1349/ps1.1537-0852.a.497
OpenAlexW3175746237
LanguageEN
References cited7

Dryer (2013a) describes a number of ways in which languages mark adverbial clauses for their semantic relation to the main clause. One way is to use separate words, either at the beginning of the clause or at the end of the clause (or, more rarely, internal to the clause). Another type uses suffixes on verbs. The remaining type contains languages with more than one means of marking adverbial clauses, none of which is dominant. 2 What is absent from this list of types are languages which employ prefixes on verbs as adverbial subordinators: Dryer (2013a) lists 64 languages (out of a sample of 659 languages) that use suffixes to mark adverbial clauses but none that use prefixes. Does this mean that prefixal adverbial subordinators are unattested? The goal of this paper is to show that that is not the case. I report here on five languages that employ prefixal adverbial subordinators, although in four of these languages, there is another type of adverbial subordinator (like separate words or suffixes), with neither type of adverbial subordinator dominant, so these would be classified in the typology of Dryer (2013a) as languages with more than one means of marking adverbial clauses, none of which is dominant

Adverbial · Dependent clause · Linguistics · Morpheme · Non-finite clause · Prefix · Sentence · Subordinator · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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