Difference between revisions of "Kistaninya Verbconstructions"

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This page is motivated by the intention to enumerate examples which represent typical verbal constructions of Kistaniniya. Hence, a number of representative examples are taken from construction headed by simple intransitive, transitive and ditransitive verbs, derivational verbs (causatives, passive), impersonals, copula, and converbs .

Constructions headed by intransitive verbs.

Intransitive verbs are characterized by not selecting an NP complement. On the basis of their semantic expression and their syntactic properties.

bəšš-o

“He cried”

bəššo
bəšš	o
cry	3PMASCSGSM
V

zəl:əl-o

“He jumped”

zəl:əlo
zəl:əl	o
jump	3PMASCSGSM
V

mət’:-at:i

“She came”

mət’:at:i
mət’:	at:i
come	3PFEMSGSM
V

bay:-i wəd:ək’-o

“The baby fell down”

bay:i
bay:	i
baby	DEF
N

wəd:ək’o
wəd:ək’	o
fell	3PMASCSGSM
V

kassa ab:əd-o

“Kassa got crazy”

kassa

Kassa

N

ab:ədo
ab:əd	o
get.crazy	3PMASCSGSM
V

kassa tədəs:ət-o

“Kassa got happy”

kassa

Kassa

N

tədəs:əto
tədəs:ət	o
get.happy	3PMASCSGSM
V

In the language, core-arguments and obliques are marked by different morpho-syntactic means. Unlike core-arguments which are optionally marked by bare object personal pronoun suffix on the verb, oblique arguments are referred to by applicative plus object personal pronoun suffix. Oblique arguments are adpositional phrases in Kistaniniya with a property of assigning thematic roles such as locative, instrumental, source, goal, beneficiary and maleficiary.

In addition to the subject, Kistaniniya allows only one further core or oblique argument to be marked on the verb. When an oblique is overtly realized in a construction, it is always the oblique that is marked on the verb. In idiomatic expressions headed by an intransitive verb, the oblique argument is referred by the applicative formative.

bəšš-ətt-b-o-t

“She blamed him”

bəššəttbot
bəšš	ətt	b	o	t
cry	3PFEMSGSM	APPL	3PMASCSGOM	MAVM
V

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+In the language, core-arguments and obliques are marked by different morpho-syntactic means. Unlike core-arguments which are optionally marked by bare object personal pronoun suffix on the verb, oblique arguments are referred to by applicative plus object personal pronoun suffix. Oblique arguments are adpositional phrases in Kistaniniya with a property of assigning thematic roles such as locative, instrumental, source, goal, beneficiary and maleficiary.
+In addition to the subject, Kistaniniya allows only one further core or oblique argument to be marked on the verb. When an oblique is overtly realized in a construction, it is always the oblique that is marked on the verb. In idiomatic expressions headed by an intransitive verb, the oblique argument is referred by the applicative formative.
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