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Pragmatic direct object Marking in Eastern Mansi by Susanna Virtanen is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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In this article I will outline one part of the effect of expressing semantic transitivity in Eastern Mansi. Mansi (Vogul) is a Uralic language spoken in Western Siberia. From the typological point of view, Eastern Mansi is a nonconfigurational language having case + agreement marking type morphosyntactic coding. The primary device for marking the direct object is verbal agreement (objective conjugation), and the function of case-marking is rather that of complementing. In this article I will discuss three main topics: 1. In what contexts does verb marking (object agreement) appear? 2. Does it appear alone or is it accompanied by a nominal object constituent? 3. When and how is the nominal object constituent marked? The theoretical basis of my study is the information structural analyses. I also make use of Differential Object Marking ( DOM ) first created by Bossong (1985) and further developed by, for example, Aissen (2003). According to my data, In Eastern Mansi, DO coding does not involve an animacy hierarchy: DO coding is primarily motivated by pragmatics. A direct object can be ( 1) not marked at all, (2) only verb marked, (3) both verb marked and case-marked, or (4) verb mark
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- Author
- Susanna Virtanen
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2014
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)