10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABESSIVE»
Discover the use of
abessive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
abessive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Handbook of Australian Languages
[c] Abessive/Ovigin, -:ga. As in (21-23), a noun phrase in Abessive case can
denote action that leaves the conscious presence of an animate being, or that
involves something that comes from a source: a one-time possessor, a place of
origin.
Robert M. W. Dixon, Barry J. Blake, 1979
2
Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes
Therefore it strictly entails that the upgrading of the Abessive must be a case of
exemplar-based analogical change. And this is what the data confirm. Given the
discussion in Section .., it is not hard to see that the Abessive became a clitic
...
Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, Andrew Garrett, 2012
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Wade Anastasia Jere, 2011
4
Grammaticalization: Current Views and Issues
In the case of Northern Saami haga, an inflectional suffix expressing the abessive
case has been reanalyzed as a postposition, but continues to signal an abessive
relation. Like most other Finno-Ugric languages, Northern Saami possesses ...
Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler, Ekkehard König, 2010
5
Finnish: An Essential Grammar
They adopt ('take') the child as their own. m Abessive, comitative and instructive
These three cases are all rare; the instructive and the comitative appear mainly in
fixed expressions like idioms. The abessive ending is —tta ~ —tta, which is ...
(ju = after all) The abessive case is the last of the Estonian cases we have to
learn. It has the meaning 'without' and is formed by adding -ta to the genitive stem
: vihmata 'without rain'; tuuleta 'without wind'. 'Without' can also be expressed by ...
Christopher Moseley, 2008
7
Chantyal Dictionary and Texts
'from', indicating proximal origin, not precise location nor movement: see
ABESSIVE- PROXIMAL ORIGIN, cf. ABLATIVE and ABESSIVE-PRECISE ORIGIN
. (1) nfii-ma purba-nasaw fiin ta 'We are from the east, I know' [C4] (2) tfiim nasaw'
hom ...
Michael Noonan, Ram Prasad Bhulanja, Jag Man Chhantyal, 1999
8
History, Society and Variation: In Honor of Albert Valdman
In this dialect, the abessive morpheme taga developed from an affix to a clitic to a
free word without changing its status as a functional element. The form taga
comes from an affixal sequence *pta-k-ek/n consisting of cari- tive *pta + lative *-k
+ ...
Albert Valdman, J. Clancy Clements, 2006
9
Handbook of North American Indians: Languages
Thus ma'9d-yrko' 'for want of food' is the abessive in the sentence below. ma'9d-yi
'ko' mwYe'-nke food-ABESSIVE die-NONVISUAL. SENSORY. EVID 'I am starving.
' 4) A word or phrase that refers to the location of the activity: the locative.
William C. Sturtevant, Ives Goddard, 1996
10
Metataxis in Practice: Dependency Syntax for Multilingual ...
... really happened to say it' - 3RD INFINITIVE nv INESSIVE, ILLA'IIVE, ADESSIVE
, ABESSIVE, E.G., Olin lukemassa (iness.) lehtea', kun — 'I was reading a paper,
when Tulen lahtemiiiin (illaL) pois - 'I will go away' Olin lahtemaisilliini (adess.) ...
Dan Maxwell, Klaus Schubert, 1989
