Verbal derivations in Chukchi towards the domain of pluractionality

DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714205

Volkov O. S., Ignatenko D. I. Glagolnyye derivatsii chukotskogo yazyka skvoz prizmu glagolnoy mnozhestvennosti1. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 111.

Verbal derivations in Chukchi language cover many different semantic domains. In the same time, many of those derivations establish polysemy towards the domain of pluractionality. The paper considers three such derivations: meteorological inchoative ‑rʔu, antipassive / iterative ‑tku and durative ‑ɬʔet (in terms of [Dunn 1999]). It will be shown that pluractionality in Chukchi is not a homogeneous category. It is rather that the semantics of pluractionality coexists with other meanings in markers, which undergoes desemantization and becomes more and more abstract, indicating a shift towards intensifiers.

Keywords

aspect, Chukchi language, verbal plurality, inchoative, antipassive, durative, inversive

About the authors

Volkov Oleg S.

senior lecturer, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. (Moscow)

kot_gitarist@mail.ru

Ignatenko Daria I.

student, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. (Moscow)

ignadash@gmail.com

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Keywords

aspect, Chukchi language, verbal plurality, inchoative, antipassive, durative, inversive