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Knowledge base · Part XIII — Nominalization, Relativization, and Complementation

104. Headless, Internally-Headed, and Noun-Modifying Clause Analyses

What is the syntactic analysis of noun-modifying clauses in Hokkaido Ainu?

北海道アイヌ語の名詞修飾節の統語分析はどのようなものか?

The analytic question of whether Ainu adnominal clauses are externally-headed RCs, headless/internally-headed relatives, or a unified 'general noun-modifying clause' type.

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Overview 9 sentences

How are noun-modifying clauses constructed in Hokkaido Ainu?

The formal-noun inventory for headless nominalizations 9 sentences· 3 examples

What is the inventory and properties of formal nouns used as generic heads in headless noun-modifying clauses?

ku=kor-kur
1SG.A=have-NMLZ
‘the one I have; my husband’
cise soy pakno arki utar
house doorway up.to come.PL people
‘the men who came up to the doorway of the house’
kem sawot pe tumi sawot pe
famine flee NMLZ war flee NMLZ
‘those who flee famine, those who flee war’

Headless nominalizations across the accessibility hierarchy 8 sentences· 1 examples

Which argument positions can be relativized in headless nominalizations in Hokkaido Ainu, and which are inaccessible?

eun a=nu usi ka isam
to 4.A=hear place even NEG.exist
‘there was no place to ask about’

The appositive construction and the GNMCC question 1 claims ·9 sentences· 3 examples

What is the appositive construction in Hokkaido Ainu, and how does it differ from the perception-complement construction?

  1. Ainu possesses a noun-modifying construction equivalent to the Japanese 'soto no kankei' type, in which the head noun cannot appear as an argument or adjunct in a corresponding non-relative clause.
    アイヌ語には、主要部名詞が非関係節において項や付加詞として現れ得ない、日本語の「外の関係」に相当する名詞修飾構文が存在する。
    existence ainu existential hura
    asserts bugaeva2012
aynu ek hum
person come sound
‘the sound of a man's coming’
okkayo cis sir
man cry appearance
‘a sight of a man's crying’
pirka aynu a=ne hum as
good person 4.A=COP sound exist
‘(someone) felt like a good person’

Dal Corso's internally-headed RC and classificatory-incorporation proposal 12 sentences

How does Dal Corso analyze the indirect evidential constructions in southern Hokkaido Ainu as internally-headed relative clauses?

The nominalization-to-lexicalization cline 13 sentences

What is the cline between headless relative clauses and lexical nouns in Hokkaido Ainu, and which nouns originated from nominalizations?