Маркирование подлежащего зависимой предикации с вершиной-причастием в нанайском языке
Marking the Subject of a Dependent Clause with a Participle Head in Nanai

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with complex sentences in Nanai that have a participle as the head of a dependent clause. The study is based on oral texts from the Nanai corpus. It focuses on the expression of the subject of a dependent clause. The subject of a dependent clause may be expressed by a nominal phrase, which causes agreement with the participle, the head of the dependent clause. If a construction with a sentential argument has coreferent subjects in the main and dependent clauses, the subject is not expressed in the dependent clause; in this case, the participle is marked with a reflexive suffix. An impersonal participle form is preferred in modal contexts. If construction with a sentential argument has non-coreferent subjects in the main and dependent clauses, the subject of the dependent clause is usually expressed with a nominative form (i.e., without explicit case markers). However, sometimes the raising of a subject into the main clause is attested. In this case, it is marked according to its syntactic position in the main clause. Whether raised or not, the subject of a dependent clause agrees with the participle in person and number. Relative clause constructions differ significantly from constructions with a sentential argument. The subject of a dependent clause is not expressed and does not agree with a participle when the subject is relativized. When other syntactic positions are relativized, the subject is expressed with a nominative form and agrees with the participle in person and number. A head nominal is normally expressed in the main clause; however, it has also been attested in the dependent clause, where it is marked according to its position in the dependent clause.

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