Constructions with verbal nouns in Iraqw
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natural language processingCreator:
Chr
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Abstract
Iraqw has a number of morphological means to derive nouns from verbs. All of these can develop
specific meanings but it is the nominalisation that expresses the action of the verb that allows for the expression of
arguments, irrespective of the actual nominalisation morpheme. These arguments (patient or agent) can be expressed as
possessive elements in noun phrases. Despite the fact that the deverbal noun is fully nominal in morphological
characteristics, the deverbal noun can occur in constructions in which its semantic argument (patient or agent) is
expressed as an object to the main verb. There are four constructions to integrate a deverbal noun in a clause. We
provide an overview of the formal characteristics of these constructions.
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