Complex Predicates with Nouns and Stative Verbs in Lakota
A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4974849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Ullrich (Language Conservancy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-446 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/708833 |
| OpenAlex | W3041163391 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In Lakota (Siouan) nouns (N) frequently occur adjacent to stative verbs (SV). Extant descriptions of Lakota grammar treat the as a syntactic compound in which the SV modifies the N. The present study offers a novel analysis that shows that the N and SV are uncompounded and that postnominal modification occurs only when the sequence is RP-internal, whereas in clause-final position it functions as a complex predicate. This analysis solves numerous outstanding issues from several areas of Lakota grammar including modification, modifier phrases, noun incorporation, inalienable possession, compounding, word formation, stress position, referentiality, and information structure
Extant taxon · Grammar · Linguistics · Noun · Possession (linguistics · Predicate (mathematical logic · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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