Verbal Semantics And Differential Object Marking In Lycopolitan Coptic
| dc.contributor.author | Engsheden, Åke | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-20T07:34:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-20T07:34:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-04-24 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper seeks to clarify the role of affectedness for the marking of direct objects through an analysis of a corpus of Lycopolitan Coptic texts (4th to 5th centuries AD). Whereas previous research has shown the importance of definiteness for the use of the direct object marker n with the so-called imperfective tenses (present and imperfect), it has proven more difficult to establish why it alternates in the non-imperfective with a zero marker. An attempt is made here to correlate the two different object constructions to Tsunoda’s verb-type hierarchy, which was conceived to capture the degree of affectedness. It appears that the more affected a direct object is, the more likely it is to receive the direct object marker; whenever the object is little affected or unaffected, the zero-marked construction is preferred. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228253 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/1066 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1019 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1019 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/1019 | |
| dc.subject | Historical grammar | |
| dc.subject | Differential Object Marking | |
| dc.subject | Lycopolitan Coptic | |
| dc.title | Verbal Semantics And Differential Object Marking In Lycopolitan Coptic |