TUNGUSO SIBIRICA 10 Irina Nikolaeva, Elena Perekhvalskaya and Maria Tolskaya Udeghe (Udihe) Folk ... more TUNGUSO SIBIRICA 10 Irina Nikolaeva, Elena Perekhvalskaya and Maria Tolskaya Udeghe (Udihe) Folk Tales Harrassowitz Verlag ... Irina Nikolaeva, Elena Perekhvalskaya, and Maria Tolskaya Udeghe (Udihe) Folk Tales 2002 Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden This One ...
Udihe and other Southern Tungusic languages have a limited number of evaluatives and use them ver... more Udihe and other Southern Tungusic languages have a limited number of evaluatives and use them very sparingly, compared to their Northern relatives (e.g. Evenki). This discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that in Northern Tungusic languages attaching evaluative suffixes brings about unification of the diverse nominal bases and may facilitate language acquisition, while in Udihe, a language with simpler morphology, there is no comparable diminutive advantage.
This thesis proposes a connection between ideophones and polarity sensitivity, phenomena that bel... more This thesis proposes a connection between ideophones and polarity sensitivity, phenomena that belong to two domains of linguistics, usually pursued independently: typology and formal grammar. The focus is on Udihe (Manchu-Tungusic) ideophones:
Depending on the logical structure, two types of alternative questions are usually described: (i)... more Depending on the logical structure, two types of alternative questions are usually described: (i) A-or-B and (ii) A-or-not-A. Remarkably, in Tungusic languages Udihe and Oroqen , there is one more, typologically rare, type (iii) A-or-DO-WHAT?, where the second disjunct is expressed by an interrogative pro-verb. We will call them open alternative questions. The pro-verb copies the inflectional markers of the finite predicate, used as the first disjunct, like in , both verbs are in focused (stressed) position, and may optionally attach identical word-final clitics -nu...-nu or -(A)s...-(A)s, so the questions of this kind sound like a rhyme. The talk will discuss how this type of alternative questions might have emerged and how it functions.
TUNGUSO SIBIRICA 10 Irina Nikolaeva, Elena Perekhvalskaya and Maria Tolskaya Udeghe (Udihe) Folk ... more TUNGUSO SIBIRICA 10 Irina Nikolaeva, Elena Perekhvalskaya and Maria Tolskaya Udeghe (Udihe) Folk Tales Harrassowitz Verlag ... Irina Nikolaeva, Elena Perekhvalskaya, and Maria Tolskaya Udeghe (Udihe) Folk Tales 2002 Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden This One ...
Udihe and other Southern Tungusic languages have a limited number of evaluatives and use them ver... more Udihe and other Southern Tungusic languages have a limited number of evaluatives and use them very sparingly, compared to their Northern relatives (e.g. Evenki). This discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that in Northern Tungusic languages attaching evaluative suffixes brings about unification of the diverse nominal bases and may facilitate language acquisition, while in Udihe, a language with simpler morphology, there is no comparable diminutive advantage.
This thesis proposes a connection between ideophones and polarity sensitivity, phenomena that bel... more This thesis proposes a connection between ideophones and polarity sensitivity, phenomena that belong to two domains of linguistics, usually pursued independently: typology and formal grammar. The focus is on Udihe (Manchu-Tungusic) ideophones:
Depending on the logical structure, two types of alternative questions are usually described: (i)... more Depending on the logical structure, two types of alternative questions are usually described: (i) A-or-B and (ii) A-or-not-A. Remarkably, in Tungusic languages Udihe and Oroqen , there is one more, typologically rare, type (iii) A-or-DO-WHAT?, where the second disjunct is expressed by an interrogative pro-verb. We will call them open alternative questions. The pro-verb copies the inflectional markers of the finite predicate, used as the first disjunct, like in , both verbs are in focused (stressed) position, and may optionally attach identical word-final clitics -nu...-nu or -(A)s...-(A)s, so the questions of this kind sound like a rhyme. The talk will discuss how this type of alternative questions might have emerged and how it functions.
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