Структура события и ненецкий глагол: заметки о актантно-акциональных свойствах Итератива
Event Structure and the Nenets Verb: Notes on the Actionality and Argument ­Realization of the Iterative

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores some event-structural characteristics of the iterative in Tundra Nenets and establishes a number of generalizations about its argument structure and telicity. The essential properties of an eventuality description derived by the iterative are to a large extent predictable. In terms of eventuality type, the iterative falls into four classes generated by two binary parameters, transitivity and availability of the reflexive conjugation. Besides, any iterative can occur in the subjective conjugation and describe an atelic, non-culminating eventuality. The argument structures of non-derived verbs and the corresponding iteratives are connected by the following generalization: If the lexical meaning of a non-derived verb specifies the descriptive properties of a subevent thematically related to the external argument, it is this argument that projects as the sentential subject of the iterative. Otherwise the internal argument is projected.

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