LING 323 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Polysynthetic Language, Dative Case, Antipassive Voice
31 Mar 2019
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Ling 323 - the grammaticalization of halkomelem face into a dative. Has many affixes, including agreement markers, transitive suffixes, lexical suffixes, and applicative suffixes. Two types of salish applicatives, two applicatives of each type: All salish languages have at least one redirective and one relational applicative suffix. The number of applicative suffixes for each salish language ranges somewhere from 2- Hypothesis: -as is an innovation in halkomelem; the origin of this suffix is the lexical suffix -as, meaning face . The alternative: -as is the lone retention of a proto-salish suffix. Halkomelem has many suffixes relating to body parts, human/relational terms, etc. These suffixes are rarely similar in form to their noun counterpart. Lexical -as appears either as -as or as - s depending on stress. Applicative suffix -as always appears as - s because it is never stressed. We know that the underlying form is -as because of indirect evidence from vowel harmony.
