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On the Function of "Participles" in Buryat : Can We Define "Participles" as the Inflectional V→A Transposition?

日本語

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2013-03-25

Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Northern Language Studies

3

25-40

Traditionally, the verbal inflection of the Mongolic languages, including Buryat, has been classified into three inflectional classes: finite verbs, participles (in other words, “verbal nouns”), and converbs. Each class has aparticular syntactic function.Finite verbsappear aspredicates ofmain clauses,participles mainly appear aspredicates of nominal and adjectivalclauses, andconverbs appear aspredicates of adverbial clauses. However, this classification may be unsuitable since some participles also appear aspredicates ofadverbial clauses. This function seems to be similar to that of adjectives,which can modify both nouns and verbs. However, participles are differentfrom adjectives. When a participleis used asthe predicate of an adverbial clause, italways appearswith some enclitical particles, which do not appear with adjectives that modify verbs.Therefore, we cannot define participles as inflectional V→A transposition,as suggested by Haspelmath and Sims (2010).

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