TAILIEUCHUNG - Predicative Possession - Oxford Studien Intypology And Linguistictheory Phần 4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'predicative possession - oxford studien intypology and linguistictheory phần 4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 234 The typology of predicative possession A similar though not completely identical grammaticalization process can be reconstructed for Breton the sister language of Cornish. Again we can document a Topic-Locational construction for earlier stages of the language and for at least some of the modern dialects. 70 Middle Breton Indo-European Celtic N e-m eus pried ebet neg to-me spouse neg I don t have a spouse Locker 1954 502 71 Modern Breton Indo-European Celtic Ur velo c hlas a-m eus indef bicycle blue to-me I have a blue bicycle Press 1986 139 On a par with Cornish some dialects of Breton - for example the western dialect of Ile de Croix see Ternes 1970 - have reanalysed the combination of the dative pronoun and the be-verb as a transitive form with the possessee as the direct object. However unlike Cornish this reanalysis has not resulted in a substitution of the agreement suYxes of the possessee for those of the possessor. Instead the dative pronoun got reanalysed as an agreement preWx on the new transitive have-verb. This verb which has the inWnitive bes Ternes 1970 293 or endevout kaout Press 1986 139 is therefore highly irregular in its Xexion it is the only verb in the language which has preWxal subject agreement instead of the suYxal Xexion of all other verbs. Its etymological relation to the verb but bezan to be still shows from the fact that the inWnitive of the have-verb can be but in addition to its other forms and that the form bet is used as the past participle of both to be and to have . For further details on the reanalysis of the dative be -construction into an irregular transitive verb to have in Breton see Lewis and Pedersen 1961 213-14. Examples of the reanalysed construction are given in 73 . 72 West Breton Indo-European Celtic Was-ed argat money There was no money Ternes 1970 291 73 West Breton Indo-European Celtic a. Nesad end-was-ed argat money My father had no money .

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