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https://doi.org/10.14943/110530

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/92090

Use of the Suffix -(n)AA to Indicate Location in Modern Mongolian : Contrasted with the Dative-Locative Case -d/-t

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母語話者内省

2024-03-20

Japan Association of Northern Language Studies

Northern Language Studies

14

79-94

In modern Mongolian (Khalkha Mongolian, hereafter simply Mongolian), the suffix -(n)AA is attached to nouns to indicate the place where things are done. Therefore, this study mines the nouns to which the suffix -(n)AA can be attached in modern Mongolian. The study also considers similarities and differences with the dative-locative case -d/-t in meaning and function. The suffix -(n)AA is attached to common nouns (locative, object, and abstract), bodily nouns, adjectives, pronouns, time nouns, relative place words, and absolute place words. Next, the suffix -(n)AA attached to a noun expresses “the place where things are done,” “abstract inducement,” “point of return of movement,” “point of attachment of things,” “direction,” “orientation” by co-occurring verbs, and “route point” by the noun immediately following it. Time is used as an adverb, without reference to any co-occurring word. Usages of -(n)AA and -d/-t attached to locative nouns are similar in that they express “the place where things are done,” “the point of return of movement,” “the point of attachment of things,” and “the inducement.” They can also be replaced by the directional case -rUU to denote the point of return of movement and the ablative case -AAs to denote the point of attachment of things. In the following cases, the suffix -(n)AA cannot be replaced by the dative-locative case -d/-t: (i) when attached to absolute place words indicating (ii) when accompanied by a verb of movement, such as ögsöx “to go up,” (iii) when the word xödöö “countryside,” which should not be accompanied by the dative-locative case -d/-t, co-occurs with the verb javax “go,” and (iv) when the adverb öglöö “morning. The suffix -(n)AA occurred less frequently than the dative-locative case -d/-t, suggesting that in modern Mongolian, the suffix -(n)AA is used in a literal and limited manner.

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