Nominalization in Cholón
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| Publication date | 2014 |
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| Book title | Word formation in South American languages |
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| Series | Studies in language companion series, 163 |
| Pages (from-to) | 207-224 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins |
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| Abstract |
In Amerindian languages and in many other agglutinative languages subordination is often a matter of nominalisation. In these languages subordinate clauses can be formed by means of nominalised verb forms. In Cholón, a language spoken in North-Peru, this is certainly the case: nominalised forms coincide with subordinate clauses.
In the Cholón language, a nominalised verb form can also coincide with a main predicate. In this paper we study the different subordinate clauses that are formed with nominalisations. We then find out which nominalisations are part of a main predicate, and when this is the case. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.163.10ale |
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