ON THE HOLISTIC QUANTIFICATION IN ADYGHE

Arkadyev Petr Mikhaylovich, Gerasimov Dmitriy Valentinovich

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The paper addresses morphosyntactic and semantic properties of a rather nontrivial construction used to encode holistic quantifi cation (“whole”) in Adyghe. We claim that the said construction has developed from adverbial clause with temporal meaning. Adyghe is notable for using morphosyntactic means to express the meaning that crosslinguistically strongly prefers lexical encoding, as well as for rather atypical and previously unattested diachronic path for development of universal quantifi ers.

Keywords: Adyghe, syntax, semantics, grammaticalization, holistic quantifi cation, adverbial clauses, subordination

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Issue: 1, 2012

Pages: 22 — 27

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