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- Turkic
- Cambridge Language Surveys
- Turkic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Technicalities
- 3 The Turkic Language Family
- 4 Turcia, the Turkic World
- 5 Status
- 6 Historical Backgrounds
- 7 Cultures
- 8 Linguistic Periodizations
- 9 Registers of Orature and Literature
- 10 Language Contacts
- 11 Lexicon
- 12 Sound Types
- 13 Prime Syllables
- 14 Phonemes in Prime Syllables
- 15 Polysyllabic Word Forms
- 16 Diachronic Phonology
- 17 Diachrony: Vowels
- 18 Diachrony: Consonants
- 19 Writing Systems
- 20 Morphology: Generalities
- 21 Nominals: Nouns
- 22 Nominals: Noun Inflection
- 23 Nominals: Adjectives
- 24 Nominals: Pronominals
- 25 Quantifiers and Numerals
- 26 Postpositions
- 27 Copular Devices
- 28 Verb Stems
- 29 Postverbial Constructions
- 30 Finite Verbals
- 31 Verbals: Viewpoint Aspect
- 32 Old Intraterminals: Aorists
- 33 Focal Intraterminals
- 34 Postterminals
- 35 Terminals
- 36 Imperatives
- 37 Modality
- 38 Voluntatives
- 39 Optatives
- 40 Hypotheticals
- 41 Further Modals
- 42 Copular Particles of Thematic Bases
- 43 Nonfinite Verbals
- 44 Participant Nominals
- 45 Action Nominals
- 46 Converbs
- 47 Adverbs
- 48 Function Words
- 49 Interjections
- 50 Word Accents
- 51 Syntactic Levels
- 52 Nominal Phrases
- 53 Verbal Phrases
- 54 Main Clauses
- 55 Nonmain Clauses
- 56 Sentences
- 57 Above the Sentence Level
- 58 Prosody
- 59 Functional Synopses
- References
- Index of linguistics and historical backgrounds
- Index of languages and dialects
- Index of subjects
45 - Action Nominals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
- Turkic
- Cambridge Language Surveys
- Turkic
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Technicalities
- 3 The Turkic Language Family
- 4 Turcia, the Turkic World
- 5 Status
- 6 Historical Backgrounds
- 7 Cultures
- 8 Linguistic Periodizations
- 9 Registers of Orature and Literature
- 10 Language Contacts
- 11 Lexicon
- 12 Sound Types
- 13 Prime Syllables
- 14 Phonemes in Prime Syllables
- 15 Polysyllabic Word Forms
- 16 Diachronic Phonology
- 17 Diachrony: Vowels
- 18 Diachrony: Consonants
- 19 Writing Systems
- 20 Morphology: Generalities
- 21 Nominals: Nouns
- 22 Nominals: Noun Inflection
- 23 Nominals: Adjectives
- 24 Nominals: Pronominals
- 25 Quantifiers and Numerals
- 26 Postpositions
- 27 Copular Devices
- 28 Verb Stems
- 29 Postverbial Constructions
- 30 Finite Verbals
- 31 Verbals: Viewpoint Aspect
- 32 Old Intraterminals: Aorists
- 33 Focal Intraterminals
- 34 Postterminals
- 35 Terminals
- 36 Imperatives
- 37 Modality
- 38 Voluntatives
- 39 Optatives
- 40 Hypotheticals
- 41 Further Modals
- 42 Copular Particles of Thematic Bases
- 43 Nonfinite Verbals
- 44 Participant Nominals
- 45 Action Nominals
- 46 Converbs
- 47 Adverbs
- 48 Function Words
- 49 Interjections
- 50 Word Accents
- 51 Syntactic Levels
- 52 Nominal Phrases
- 53 Verbal Phrases
- 54 Main Clauses
- 55 Nonmain Clauses
- 56 Sentences
- 57 Above the Sentence Level
- 58 Prosody
- 59 Functional Synopses
- References
- Index of linguistics and historical backgrounds
- Index of languages and dialects
- Index of subjects
Summary
Action nominals 〈an〉 describe actions and occur in nonmain clauses of various kinds. They display morphological properties typical of nouns, e.g. the ability to take on plural and case markers as well as actional, aspectual, and modal markers (Johanson 1998b: 46). They may be called ‘participles’ in the sense of sharing certain properties of verbs and nouns, but they are certainly not verbal adjectives.
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- Turkic , pp. 744 - 749Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021