Nominalization in Cholón

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Authors
Publication date 2014
Host editors
  • S. Danielsen
  • K. Hannss
  • F. Zúñiga
Book title Word formation in South American languages
ISBN
  • 9789027259288
Series Studies in language companion series, 163
Pages (from-to) 207-224
Number of pages 18
Publisher Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
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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