INCLUSIVE AND EXCLUSIVE IN ALTAIC LANGUAGES
The article deals with the category of inclusive/exclusive in Altaic languages: special sets of pronouns and nominal and verbal forms in Manchu-Tungusic and Mongolic, forms of augmented and minimal inclusive in Turkic imperative paradigms. A special attention is paid to the structural patterns of building inclusive. All-Turkic multi-plural personal pronouns having more than one affi x of plurality in their morphological structure as well as collective-dual pronouns in Yakut are characterized according to their ability to express inclusive/exclusive semantics.
Keywords: exclusive, inclusive, minimal and augmented inclusive Altaic languages
Issue: 1, 2012
Pages: 75 — 81
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