Ambiguous Verb Sequences in Transeurasian Languages and Beyond
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Ambiguous Verb Sequences in Transeurasian Languages and Beyond

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Some sequences of verbs can display systematic ambiguities in meaning. Accent patterns are among the means for disambiguating them. The study based on presentations given at the 19th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), held August 17-19, 2018, at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, which was the first conference of this kind in Central Asia presents a comprehensive analysis of ambiguous verb sequences and ways of teasing them apart, an issue that has never before been addressed in the typological literature. It consists of seventeen contributions focusing on data from the Transeurasian languages Turkic, Japanese and Korean, and a Tungusic variety. The studies demonstrate strong typological similarities between these languages.The introductory chapter succinctly presents Lars Johanson's theoretical framework and terminology, which are applied by the authors. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald reviews verb sequences from a broad typological perspective. Martine Robbeets studies the coincidence of intraterminal and postterminal readings in certain converb constructions across the Transeurasian languages. Ten papers deal with Turkic varieties such as Turkish dialects, a Volga-Turkic variety of the 17th century, Kazakh, Yakut, Dolgan, Siberian Turkic, Noghay, Salar, and Uyghur. Complex predicates are analyzed in an endangered Tungusic variety, Uilta (Orok). One chapter deals with Korean, and another with Fukuoka Japanese. The final contribution, on Ladakhi (a Tibetic language), demonstrates the broader areal distribution of ambiguous verb sequences.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Pages
  3. Table of contents
  4. Preface
  5. Éva Á. Csató, Lars Johanson and Birsel Karakoç: Introduction
  6. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Verb sequences and Transeurasian languages: A typological perspective
  7. Aynur Abish and Éva Á. Csató: The verb ‘to look, to see’ in ambiguous verb sequences in Kazakh and some other Transeurasian languages
  8. Kyou-Dong Ahn: Ambiguities in Korean -ko iss and its development into a pejorative marker
  9. Eyüp Bacanlı: Ambiguities of verb sequences in the Denizlidialects of Turkish
  10. Patryk Czerwinski: Complex predicates in Uilta (Orok)
  11. Chris Lasse Däbritz: On ambiguous verb sequences in Dolgan
  12. Balázs Danka: Ambiguous verb sequences in a 17th century Turkic variety
  13. Uldanay Jumabay, Irina Nevskaya, Nida Ocak and Saule Tazhibayeva: Ambiguous verb sequences in Kazakhin a comparative perspective
  14. Birsel Karakoç: Levels of potential ambiguity in Noghay verb sequences
  15. Akiko Nagano and Masaharu Shimada: On the semantics of certain verb sequences in Standard and Fukuoka Japanese
  16. Öner Özçelik: A formal phonological and acoustic analysis of verb sequences in Turkic
  17. Natalia Popova and Nadezhda Danilova: Verb sequences in Yakut
  18. Martine Robbeets: The rise and resolution of viewpoint aspectual ambiguity in Transeurasian reconstruction
  19. Camille Simon: Ambiguous verb sequences in Salar
  20. Alexander Sugar: Monoclausal double negation in Uyghur
  21. Bettina Zeisler: Ambiguous verb sequences in Ladakhi
  22. List of contributors