The rise of the nominalizations

The case of the grammaticalization of clause types in Ecuadorian Siona

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ID20034256
AuthorsMartine Bruil (0000-0002-8287-3336, Leiden University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages391-417
Publication date2019-08-08
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueNominalization in Languages of the Americas (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/tsl.124.10bru
OpenAlexW3009994099
ISBN9789027202444
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

The nominalization of verbs in Ecuadorian Siona is carried out by nominal classifiers. The major types of nominalization in the language are event nominalization and subject nominalization. Object nominalization needs additional morphology. When verbs are not nominalized they carry portmanteau morphology that marks the categories of subject, clause type (assertive, reportative, interrogative, and dependent clauses) and tense. A peculiarity of the system is that the reportative, interrogative and dependent clause subject paradigms show a remarkable resemblance with nominal classifiers in the language. This paper proposes that the reportative forms grammaticalized from a reported speech construction through clause union, the interrogative forms grammaticalized from a (pseudo-)cleft construction through insubordination and the dependent clause forms developed from nominalizations that were used adverbially

Dependent clause · Interrogative · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Nominalization · Non-finite clause · Noun · Sentence · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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