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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/55118

Action Noun and Agentive/Patientive Noun in Koryak: with Special Focus on the Degree of Nominalization

日本語

2014

Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Northern Language Studies

4

43-64

The present paper describes the morphological and syntactic behavior of action noun GN and agentive/patientive noun JQ in Koryak and compare the degree of nominalization with each other. The result of the examination reveals that, (i) GN and JQ share the following common features. (a) They both behave morphologically and syntactically similar to a noun. On the contrary they are used not only as the predicate of a subordinate clause, concretely, GN, as the predicate of a nominal clause, and JQ, as the predicate of an adnominal clause, but also as the predicate of a main clause expressing deontic meaning. (b) The degree of nominalization of both GN and JQ increases in the order of predicate in the main clause>predicate in the subordinate clause>argument. (ii) Contrary to Comrie and Thompson’s assertion (2004), the present research shows that the action noun GN is higher in the degree of nominalization than agentive/patientive noun JQ.

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2185-7121

AA12516968