Chapter 6
General noun-modifying clause constructions in Hinuq and Bezhta, with a note on other Daghestanian languages
Bernard Comrie | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | University of California Santa Barbara
Diana Forker | University of Bamberg | LCRC James Cook University
Hinuq and Bezhta, two languages of the Tsezic sub-group of the Nakh-Daghestanian (East Caucasian) language family, have General noun modifying clause constructions (GNMCCs), which have also been noted in some other Nakh-Daghestanian languages. While readily acceptable and interpretable, GNMCCs that do not receive an interpretation with a coreferential element in the modifying clause are rare in natural discourse, certainly in comparison with Japanese, and the range of types also seems more restricted. We speculate that this is because Japanese by and large lacks sentential complement structures independent of GNMCCs, and moreover because Hinuq and Bezhta do not have highly frequent GNMCCs with light nouns, whose presence in Japanese serves to make GNMCCs a much more salient feature of discourse.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.GNMCCs with a coreferential element in the modifying clause and “accessibility”
- 2.1The “gap” strategy
- 2.1.1The understood coreferential noun phrase in the modifying clause is an argument
- S
- P
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A
- Stim
- Exp
- R (Recipient of ditransitive construction)
- T (Theme of ditransitive construction)
- E (Oblique object of extended intransitive or transitive verb)
- Subcategorized locatives
- 2.1.2“Relativization” of adjuncts
- Non-subcategorized locatives
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Instrument
- Comitative
- Time
- Reason and cause
- Possessor
- Object of postposition
- Standard of comparison
- 2.2Resumptive pronouns
- 3.GNMCCs without a coreferential noun phrase in the modifying clause
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3.1Other components of the Frame
- Consequence/result
- Reverse condition
- Purpose
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Requisite
- 3.2Sentential complements of nouns
- Nouns of communication
- Nouns of thought and feeling
- Other content-taking nouns as heads
- Other types
- 4.Coreference across clause boundaries
- 5.Other Nakh-Daghestanian languages
- 6.Conclusions and interpretations
- 7.A note on Tsez
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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Abbreviations
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References
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