TUVAN (ALTAI)
SUMMARY
In the Altai variety of Tuvan (a Western variety spoken in Tsengel district, Bayan-Ölgii, Mongolia), the converb in -y heads non-finite syntactically subordinate clauses and its subject generally corefers with the subject of the superordinate clause, i.e. it is a same-subject converb (SS-converbs). Part-whole relations between the subject of the converbial clause and the subject of the superordinate clause also license SS-converbs. Possession must be overtly coded on the possessed subject.
See also Altai, Bashkir, Forest Enets, Karaim, Khalkha Mongolian, Khanty (Eastern), Khanty (Northern), Kirghiz, , Old Turkic, Shor, Tundra Enets, Tundra Nenets, Turkish, Tuvan (Jungar), Tuvan (Todža), Udmurt, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yukaghir (Kolyma), Yukaghir (Tundra).
LANGUAGE PROFILE
EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PIPS
- Evidence for the internal status of possessors comes from adnominal genitive case-marking on the possessor, when expressed.
- Possession is also marked directly on the possessed noun, which indexes the person and number of the possessor.
- Prominent possessors appear to occupy the same syntactic position as other possessors within the NP.
KEY SOURCES
Aydemir, İbrahim A. 2009. Konverbien im Tuwinischen. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz.
