Article

Name: Transitivization of incorporating constructions in Ket

Authors: S. S. Butorin

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; Novosibirsk State Technical University Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The paper analyzes the transitivizing derivation as applied to the incorporating complexes based on the constructive verb ‘to do’ which present canonical incorporating proper. It is shown that transitivizing along with detranzitivizing forms a multi-stage derivational chain including an original non-incorporating construction, a derived intransitivized incorporating one and a derived transitivized incorporating one. Transitivizing is a transforming derivation type involving raising a syntactic status of the oblique object to a status of the direct object having a semantic role of ‘material’ which leads to extending the verb agreement model by one more agreement slot. It is concluded that raising the syntactic status of the oblique object serves as a tool of raising the communicative rank of the argument characterized by a semantic role of ‘material’, thus introducing it into the utterance focus, while the incorporated patient noun is shifted into the utterance background.

Keywords: Ket language, incorporation, incorporating complexes, syntactic derivation, transitivizing, verb agreement slots

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