Incipient grammaticalization of a redundant purpose clause marker in Lamunxin Ėven: Contact-induced change or independent innovation? - Université Lumière Lyon 2
Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2013

Incipient grammaticalization of a redundant purpose clause marker in Lamunxin Ėven: Contact-induced change or independent innovation?

Brigitte Pakendorf

Résumé

When languages that are known to be in contact share features, it is often a simple conclusion that these must be due to contact-induced developments. However, such a conclusion needs to be substantiated with careful analysis of crosslinguistic data. This approach will be demonstrated with a case study of an innovation in the Lamunxin dialect of the Tungusic language Ėven. This dialect, which is under strong contact pressure from the Turkic language Sakha (Yakut), is developing a purpose clause marker out of a converb of the generic verb of speech which is structurally parallel to a Sakha purposive construction. Notwithstanding the crosslinguistic frequency of this construction, detailed analysis supports the role of contact in its development in Lamunxin Ėven.

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hal-02012636 , version 1 (16-07-2020)

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Brigitte Pakendorf. Incipient grammaticalization of a redundant purpose clause marker in Lamunxin Ėven: Contact-induced change or independent innovation?. In Martine Robbeets, Hubert Cuyckens. Shared Grammaticalization. With special focus on Transeurasian languages, John Benjamins, pp.259-283, 2013. ⟨hal-02012636⟩
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