SUBSTANTIVIZATION IN THE YENISSEIC LANGUAGES
Verbs, modifying words (in terms of traditional grammar – adjectives/adverbs), pronouns, nominal groups are subjected to substantivization in the Yenisseic languages (Ket, Yugh, Kott). Substantivized forms are marked with a special suffix, nominalizer, having formal similarity in all the three languages under study.
Keywords: Yenisseic language family; syntactic, word-formativ, “repeated” substantivization; isolated attributive constructions with substantivized forms
Issue: 7, 2010
Series of issue: Issue 7
Rubric: Topical Problems of Siberian and Caucasus Languages
Pages: 114 — 119
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