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Bound nouns in Harakmbut
Van linden, An
2021
 

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Keywords :
alienability; classes of nouns; adnominal possession; noun incorporation; N-N compounding; Harakmbut
Abstract :
[en] This paper focuses on the morphological distinction between potentially free and obligatorily bound nouns in Harakmbut, an endangered isolate language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. Bound nouns require a noun prefix to obtain independent nominal status (wa- or e-) and refer to inalienably possessed entities, such as body parts, plant parts, and landscape parts, as well as kinship terms and basic shapes or qualities of entities. The same prefixes, wa- and e-, are also used in verb-based nominalization. The morphosyntactic behaviour of bound nouns is different from that of independent nouns in the areas of noun incorporation, N-N compounds and adnominal modification. However, obligatorily bound kinship terms seem to form exceptions, as they typically pattern similarly to independent nouns in these environments. Special attention will be devoted to adnominal possession, in which the presence versus omission of the noun prefix on the possessee noun makes for subtle semantic differences.
Research center :
Lilith - Liège, Literature, Linguistics - ULiège
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Van linden, An  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Linguistique synchronique anglaise
Language :
English
Title :
Bound nouns in Harakmbut
Publication date :
19 January 2021
Event name :
Talk within the seminar in Morpho-syntax (Atelier de Morphosyntaxe)
Event organizer :
Language Description, Typology and Fieldwork (DTT) research team of the DDL (Dynamique du Language) research lab
Event place :
Lyon, France
Event date :
19-01-2021
Audience :
International
Name of the research project :
Alienability contrasts in the Amazon and beyond: Language description and cross-linguistic comparison
Funders :
Collegium de Lyon & LabEx ASLAN – Dynamique Du Langage
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