This paper proposes that nominalization structures in early Japanese and Korean display syntagmatic parallels in three important inflections and/or suffixes: a base adnominal inflection *-r (and its agentively-marked variant *-or), a resultative infinitival and substantivizing inflection *-a, and a nominal suffix *ku expressing circumstances that I label ‘absolute’. I show that two of these nominalizations in Proto-Japanese, the fossilized nominal [ADN+*a] and the ku-nominal [ADN+*a+*ku], match part-for-part the construction of complex sequential nominalizations in Proto-Korean, and proposes Proto-Japano-Koreanic reconstructions for these patterns and their constituent elements. In so doing, this paper refutes the strong claim by Vovin that Japanese and Korean share “no common paradigmatic morphology,” and concludes with providing a framework for understanding how morphological mismatches between the two languages might shed light on grammatical changes in their proto-languages.
This study examines circumfixation in Akan (Kwa), focusing on its role in nominalization and pluralization. While prefixation and suffixation in Akan have received extensive attention (Dolphyne, 2006; Bodomo & Marfo, 2005; Ofori, 2016), circumfixation remains understudied. We argue that Akan has three productive circum...
Isaac Nyarko, Solomon Owusu Amoh, Bright Amoah et al.· Journal of English Language...· 0 citations
In this paper, we discuss topicalization comparatives, an underrecognized subtype within the Heinean event-schema framework. Drawing on data from Nyanja, Malay, and Sinitic languages, the analysis corroborates the existence of a construction marked by a fronted topic with an obligatory standard of comparison and an opt...
Mandarin Chinese has an unmarked comparative construction(bare comparative), [NP1+Adj+NP2+MP] (NP1 = comparee, Adj = adjective, NP2 = standard, MP = measure phrase), which lacks an overt comparative marker such as bi (比). This paper aims to demonstrate that this construction is not an elliptical variant of marked comp...
Minjeong So· Korea Association of Chinese...· 0 citations
Among the early Germanic languages, Gothic best preserves the two subtypes of
jō
-stem nouns, which differ only in the
nom.sg
, e.g.
bandi
‘bond’ vs.
wrakja
‘persecution’. It has been assumed since the 19th century that the distribution of the
bandi
and
wrakja
types is conditioned by weight of the nomin...
Ronald I. Kim· AMSTERDAMER BEITRÄGE ZUR ÄLT...· 0 citations
The paper argues that developments and changes in relative-clause formation in Ukrainian since the end of the 18th c. are due to lexical variation between a relative particle, typically ščo ‘that’, with or without a resumptive pronoun, and the relative pronouns jakyj and kotryj ‘which’. This repertory of relativisers i...
Jan Fellerer· Revue des études slaves· 0 citations
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