MORPHOLOGICAL CAUSATIVES IN ABAZA

Alexey Koshevoy ()
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Abstract: This paper deals with the productive morphological causative r(?)- in Abaza (Northwest Caucasian), a highly polysynthetic ergative language. We discuss the causativization process in Abaza as well as the semantic properties of the construction and elaborate an analysis of the event structure of the Abaza morphological causatives based on the scope of adverbials

Keywords: Abaza; Northwest Caucasian; causative; event structure; polysynthesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2018
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, December 2018, pages 1-17

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