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Roots and verbs in North Saami

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Ida Toivonen
  • Diane Nelson

Summary, in English

Although it has been argued lately that roots have no lexical category, a

close look at deadjectival and denominal verbs in North Saami reveals that roots nevertheless differ with respect to their semantic type, and that this semantic contrast between roots leads to systematic syntactic and semantic differences between derived verbs. More specifically, state-denoting (‘adjectival’) roots can combine directly with a verbalizer, yielding verbs that mean ‘be Root’, ‘become Root’ or ‘cause to be Root’. Entity-denoting roots, on the other hand, must combine with a (possibly abstract) preposition before the verbalizer is merged, and because of the obligatory presence of the preposition, the result is a verb that means ‘have Root’, ‘get Root’ or ‘cause to have Root’. Hence, it is not the case that any root can appear in just any syntactic environment.

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

137-166

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Saami Linguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Volym

288

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature

Nyckelord

  • lexical category
  • North Saami
  • roots
  • denominal verbs
  • derived verbs
  • deadjectival verbs

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978 90 272 4803 9