Origin of Lexical Suffixes in the Salish Languages
Lexical suffixation is an essential feature of the Salish language family. Such suffixes form closed classes of morphemes that express various types of meaning, e.g., somatisms, locatives, natural phenomena, artefacts, phytonyms, etc. Most Salish lexical suffixes are of substantive nature. However,...
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| author | Olga N. Ikonnikova Stepan S. Kalinin |
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| description | Lexical suffixation is an essential feature of the Salish language family. Such suffixes form closed classes of morphemes that express various types of meaning, e.g., somatisms, locatives, natural phenomena, artefacts, phytonyms, etc. Most Salish lexical suffixes are of substantive nature. However, they hardly ever correspond with free forms of substantives, be it synchronically or diachronically. The authors reviewed a number of theories concerning the origin and development of the Salish lexical suffixes. Based on the synchronic and diachronic analysis, they put forward the following hypothesis of the origin of the Salish lexical suffixes. The suffixes stared as a dependent predicative construction, eventually compressed into a morphologically-coherent model according to the following evolution scheme: dependent predication / nominalized predicate → compounding / incorporation → lexical suffix (bound morpheme). Thus, the synchronous Salish substantives are diachronically based on verbal stems with their process semantics. The study adds to the linguistic understanding of the origin of various parts of speech and the borders between substantives and verbs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-48f27b741b0a4b31939fefbdca7689a12023-09-29T04:58:44ZdeuKemerovo State UniversityСибСкрипт2949-21222949-20922023-09-0125449149910.21603/sibscript-2023-25-4-491-4994622Origin of Lexical Suffixes in the Salish LanguagesOlga N. Ikonnikova0Stepan S. Kalinin1Taganrog Institute of Management and EconomicsInternational Slavic InstituteLexical suffixation is an essential feature of the Salish language family. Such suffixes form closed classes of morphemes that express various types of meaning, e.g., somatisms, locatives, natural phenomena, artefacts, phytonyms, etc. Most Salish lexical suffixes are of substantive nature. However, they hardly ever correspond with free forms of substantives, be it synchronically or diachronically. The authors reviewed a number of theories concerning the origin and development of the Salish lexical suffixes. Based on the synchronic and diachronic analysis, they put forward the following hypothesis of the origin of the Salish lexical suffixes. The suffixes stared as a dependent predicative construction, eventually compressed into a morphologically-coherent model according to the following evolution scheme: dependent predication / nominalized predicate → compounding / incorporation → lexical suffix (bound morpheme). Thus, the synchronous Salish substantives are diachronically based on verbal stems with their process semantics. The study adds to the linguistic understanding of the origin of various parts of speech and the borders between substantives and verbs.https://www.sibscript.ru/jour/article/view/5497parts of speechlexical affixlexical suffixorigin of lexical suffixesconnectivenominal predicatelexicalizationincorporationsalish languages |
| spellingShingle | Olga N. Ikonnikova Stepan S. Kalinin Origin of Lexical Suffixes in the Salish Languages СибСкрипт parts of speech lexical affix lexical suffix origin of lexical suffixes connective nominal predicate lexicalization incorporation salish languages |
| title | Origin of Lexical Suffixes in the Salish Languages |
| title_full | Origin of Lexical Suffixes in the Salish Languages |
| title_fullStr | Origin of Lexical Suffixes in the Salish Languages |
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| title_short | Origin of Lexical Suffixes in the Salish Languages |
| title_sort | origin of lexical suffixes in the salish languages |
| topic | parts of speech lexical affix lexical suffix origin of lexical suffixes connective nominal predicate lexicalization incorporation salish languages |
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