Iterative and avertive polysemy in Moksha Mordvin
2019; De Gruyter; Volume: 72; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/stuf-2019-0005
ISSN2196-7148
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
ResumoAbstract The paper focuses on a two aspectual morphemes in Moksha Mordvin (<Mordvin<Finno-Ugric). The first of them, the Frequentative, has four phonologically conditioned allomorphs, - ənd-, -n’ə-, -s’ə -, and - kšn’ə -. These affixes used to be separate morphemes in Proto-Finno-Ugric, but ended up as having the same meaning and being complementarily distributed. A remnant of a more archaic stage of language evolution is the Avertive marker, - əkšn’ə -, only different from one of the Frequentative allomorphs by one phoneme, which can hardly be a coincidence. A diachronic hypothesis about how iterative-avertive polyfunctionality could have arisen is suggested.
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