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COGNITIVE VARIATION IN GRAMMAR: THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANTIVES IN THE SALISHAN LANGAUGES IN SYNCHRO-DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE

COGNITIVE VARIATION IN GRAMMAR: THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANTIVES IN THE SALISHAN LANGAUGES IN SYNCHRO-DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVE


Author:  Ikonnikova O.N.

Affiliation:  South Federal University

Abstract

In the article the problem of universality of substantives is raised within the frame work of the archaic Salish an languages. Due to the absence of part-of-speech differentiation in the Salish an languages there exist nominal roots functioning as predicates with pronominal suffixes and lexical suffixes expressing the meanings of substantives. In such a way the designation of a single state of affairs expressed by a predicate stem gives us perspectives for the further research into the evolutional process of singling out an argument out of the whole state of affairs by means of splitting the latter in the language diachrony.

Keywords:  substantives, archaic, Salish an languages, predicate, argument, state of affairs

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Pages:  175-180

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