FOREST ENETS
SUMMARY
Forest Enets has distinct converbs, i.e. non-finite verb forms heading syntactically subordinate clauses. Some of these are same-subject (SS) converbs, which require coreference between the subject of the converbial clause and the subject of the superordinate clause. Some SS-converbs are also licensed by two subjects which are in a part-whole relation with each other but which do not strictly corefer. In such constructions, the subject expressing the part must be overtly coded for possession.
See also Altai, Bashkir, Karaim, Khalkha Mongolian, Khanty (Eastern), Khanty (Northern), Kirghiz, Old Turkic, Shor, Tundra Enets, Tundra Nenets, Turkish, Tuvan (Altai), Tuvan (Jungar), Tuvan (Todža), Udmurt, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yukaghir (Kolyma), Yukaghir (Tundra).
LANGUAGE PROFILE
EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PIPS
- A possessor may be expressed by possessive morphology on the possessed noun alone, and in such cases the only expression of the possessor is internal to the same phrase as the possessed.
- Evidence for the internal status of possessors comes from adnominal genitive case-marking on the possessor.
KEY SOURCES
Shluinskiy, Andrei. 2019 [In press]. Контекстное деепричастие в диалектах энецкого языка [Contextual converbs in the dialects of Enets], Ural-Altaic Studies 32.
Andrei Shluinskiy, personal communication.
