From 'wood' to future tense
Nominal origins of the future construction in Hup
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2686945 |
|---|---|
| Autores | P Epps (0000-0002-7429-7885, The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2008 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 383-404 |
| Data de publicação | 2008-04-02 |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Periódico | Studies in Language (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978 |
| Editora | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sl.32.2.05epp |
| OpenAlex | W1986660969 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
Cross-linguistic comparison of future constructions (e.g. Bybee et al. 1994) shows that future grams almost invariably derive from verbs involving agent-oriented modality or spatial movement. However, the Hup language of the northwest Brazilian Amazon (Nadahup or 'Makú' family) has developed a future gram from a noun: 'wood, stick'. This paper traces a proposed path of grammaticalization from the free lexeme 'wood' to an increasingly abstract 'generic' noun in nominal compounds, thence to a purpose adverbial, and finally to a future suffix in verbal constructions. While a nominal source like 'wood, stick' for a future gram is typologically extraordinary, each step in this transition is argued to be clearly motivated and consistent with more general cross-linguistic patterns of grammaticalization
Adverbial · Future tense · Grammaticalization · Lexeme · Linguistics · Noun · Suffix · History · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,22 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2008 - 2018 (11) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 4 |