Typologically Significant Features of the Verbal Derivational Categories ‘Iterarive’ and ‘Semelfactive’ in Ket.
The purpose of the paper is to highlight the main features of the category of distribution in time and determine the basis for typological analysis of the selected Ket verbal derivational categories. On the one hand, the main semantic features of the Ket category of distribution in time are considered, on the other hand the attention is paid to the means of the description of these features. The analysis presented in the paper shows that the main feature of the semantic category of the verbal quantity is the split into two derivational patterns. The first pattern ‘iterative’ includes the opposition of multiplex and full-cycle verbs, the second pattern ‘semelfactive’ involves only one semantic class of verbs (sound production verbs), moreover it is based on the oppositions within two cognitive categories plexity and state of boundedness.
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Issue: 4, 2006
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology: Indo-European and Siberian languages)
Rubric: Siberian Languages
Pages: 156 — 161
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