東京大学言語学論集 = Tokyo University linguistic papers (TULIP), 2018
This paper describes the basic characteristics of transitivity alternations in North Saami based ... more This paper describes the basic characteristics of transitivity alternations in North Saami based on the lists of alternating verbs in Haspelmath (1993) and Nichols et al. (2004). According to the morphology, I classify the alternation patterns into four types, namely causative suffixation, anticausative suffixation, vowel alternation and suppletive. I also give an analysis on the direction of alternations in the framework of Haspelmath (1993) and Nichols et al. (2004) and conclude that North Saami is a transitivizing language. Labile verbs are not found from the lists of Haspelmath (1993) and Nichols et al. (2004), and the previous literature such as Julien (2016) states that North Saami has no labile verbs at all. However, I point out that North Saami has a possible labile verb and the usage of that labile verb may be influenced by Finnish. I claim that the emergence of this new labile verb is possibly a result of language contact and bilingualism between North Saami and Finnish.
東京大学言語学論集 = Tokyo University linguistic papers (TULIP), 2018
This paper describes the basic characteristics of transitivity alternations in North Saami based ... more This paper describes the basic characteristics of transitivity alternations in North Saami based on the lists of alternating verbs in Haspelmath (1993) and Nichols et al. (2004). According to the morphology, I classify the alternation patterns into four types, namely causative suffixation, anticausative suffixation, vowel alternation and suppletive. I also give an analysis on the direction of alternations in the framework of Haspelmath (1993) and Nichols et al. (2004) and conclude that North Saami is a transitivizing language. Labile verbs are not found from the lists of Haspelmath (1993) and Nichols et al. (2004), and the previous literature such as Julien (2016) states that North Saami has no labile verbs at all. However, I point out that North Saami has a possible labile verb and the usage of that labile verb may be influenced by Finnish. I claim that the emergence of this new labile verb is possibly a result of language contact and bilingualism between North Saami and Finnish.
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