The first imperative of Tungusic
The first imperative of Tungusic
Author(s): José Andrés Alonso de la FuenteSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Tungusic languages; historical & comparative linguistics; verbal morphology; analogy; paradigm leveling
Summary/Abstract: In this paper it will be argued that the “so-called” paradigm of the First Imperative of Tungusic is secondary. The functions attributed to the First Imperative may have been originally conveyed by particles or structures which are preserved in Manchuric. However, they were grammaticalized and modeled into a paradigm only in Common Tungusic.
Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 129
- Page Range: 7-34
- Page Count: 28
- Language: English
