VERB DERIVATION IN THE KET LANGUAGE: ACTANT DERIVATION AND INCORPORATION

Butorin Sergey Sergeyevich

DOI: 10.23951/2307-6119-2018-2-9-18

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Butorin S. S., Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher. Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. St. Nikolaev, 8, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090. Novosibirsk State Technical University. St. Karl Marx, 20, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630073. E-mail: butorin_ss@mail.ru

The paper discusses the issues of noun incorporation in the Ket language. The evidence is given that incorporated nouns are inserted into a separate slot following the agent slot and separated from the kernel verb stem by inflectional affixes. The constructions including the verbs with incorporated nouns denoting semantic patients are considered. The possibility of incorporating semantic locatives, instruments and materials is only outlined. The basic and derived incorporated syntactic structures are analyzed using the dynamic syntax principles presupposing the availability of derivative relationship between syntactic construction. Thus, special attention is paid to prototypical incorporation which predetermins the opposition of non-incorporated and incorporated constructions. The mechanism of the “secondary” transitivizing of the derived intransitive incorporated complexes is described. It is concluded that incorporation in Ket is not used extensively compared to some other incorporating languages.

Keywords: Ket language, actant derivation, incorporation, patient noun incorporation, detransitivizing

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