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https://doi.org/10.14943/110542

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/92077

Verbal Suffix -lu- in the Northern Dialect of Uilta

日本語

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2024-03-20

Japan Association of Northern Language Studies

Northern Language Studies

14

331-350

This paper focuses on the verbal suffix -lu- in the northern dialect of Uilta (formerly called Orok), one of the Tungusic Languages. The observation is primarily based on materials collected on Sakhalin Island from the 1990s onward. As a result, the form -luxA(n)-PERS, in which the suffix is followed by the perfective participle ending -xA(n) and a personal ending, is analyzed as ‘began to’ and the basic function of -lu- can be determined as inchoative aspect, as the previous studies have suggested. However, it was found that it cannot help explain a certain kind of construction where the copula verb bi- follows a perfective participle with the suffix -lu-, as in luxA(n)(-PERS)#bi-. The -luxA(n)(-PERS)#bi- construction is often associated with the Russian expression including dolzhen (dolzhna, dolzhno, or dolzhny) by the native speakers today. Thus far, the author has not found any reliable examples of -lu- followed by the imperfective participle ending, i.e., -llee, which Petrova (1967) reported about, and -lli (<-lu+ri). As for the future participle form -luli (<-lu-li), the author observed three instances from a speaker. In this paper, the priority is given to the presentation of examples and the observation of the forms, and we do not go into a discussion of the semantics. The author concludes that much remains to be done to reveal the feature of the suffix.

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2185-7121

AA12516968