Different Subject Constructions with Depictive Secondary Predicates in South
Siberian Turkic

Авторы
I. A. Nevskaya
Specific syntactic constructions of complex predicates that assign more
than one predicate to their semantic subject are well known cross-linguistically.
Examples of such constructions are structures such as He returned tired, lived alone,
worked as a teacher, etc. They contain two semantic predicates – a main one expressed
by a finite verb form, and a secondary one, often expressed by a nominal form or an
infinite verb form. Our research has shown that depictive predicates have their structural
and functional peculiarities in different South Siberian Turkic languages, compared
between themselves and with depictives in Oguz and Kypchak languages.
The article deals with South Siberian depictive secondary predicates and describes
their semantic and structural types. A special attention is paid to depictive predicates
having a subject, different from the subject of the main predicate.
DOI
10.25205/2307-1737-2019-2-327-344
Аннотация

Specific syntactic constructions of complex predicates that assign more
than one predicate to their semantic subject are well known cross-linguistically.
Examples of such constructions are structures such as He returned tired, lived alone,
worked as a teacher, etc. They contain two semantic predicates – a main one expressed
by a finite verb form, and a secondary one, often expressed by a nominal form or an
infinite verb form. Our research has shown that depictive predicates have their structural
and functional peculiarities in different South Siberian Turkic languages, compared
between themselves and with depictives in Oguz and Kypchak languages.
The article deals with South Siberian depictive secondary predicates and describes
their semantic and structural types. A special attention is paid to depictive predicates
having a subject, different from the subject of the main predicate.

Keywords
South Siberian Turkic languages, depictive secondary predicates, structural and semantic types, lexicalization

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Different Subject Constructions with Depictive Secondary Predicates in South
Siberian Turkic С. 327–344. DOI 10.25205/2307-1737-2019-2-327-344