Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar

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Carol Genetti
In Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, Joana Jansen, Functional-historical approaches to explanation. In honor of Scott DeLancey [Typological Studies in Language 103), John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2013, pp. 195-220.

DOI: 10.1075/tsl.103.10gen

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Genetti, C. (2013). Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar. In I. T. Thornes, E. Andvik, G. Hyslop, & J. Jansen (Eds.), Functional-historical approaches to explanation. In honor of Scott DeLancey [Typological Studies in Language 103) (pp. 195–220.). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.103.10gen

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Genetti, Carol. “Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar.” In Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation. In Honor of Scott DeLancey [Typological Studies in Language 103), edited by In Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, and Joana Jansen, 195–220. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2013.

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Genetti, Carol. “Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar.” Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation. In Honor of Scott DeLancey [Typological Studies in Language 103), edited by In Tim Thornes et al., John Benjamins, 2013, pp. 195–220., doi:10.1075/tsl.103.10gen.

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@inbook{carol2013a,
  title = {Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar},
  year = {2013},
  address = {Amsterdam & Philadelphia},
  pages = {195-220.},
  publisher = {John Benjamins},
  doi = {10.1075/tsl.103.10gen},
  author = {Genetti, Carol},
  editor = {Thornes, In Tim and Andvik, Erik and Hyslop, Gwendolyn and Jansen, Joana},
  booktitle = {Functional-historical approaches to explanation. In honor of Scott DeLancey [Typological Studies in Language 103)}
}

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the historical status of tense-aspect suffixes in the Kathmandu Valley and Eastern branches of Newar. By comparing across branches and triangulating with Classical Newar, the paper demonstrates that the innovative past anterior and present tense markers in Eastern Newar were derived from nominalizers. The future tense marker -i, which is found in both branches of the family, also had nominalizing functions, as did the precursors of every suffix now used in finite contexts in Kathmandu Newar. This suggests that the current finite morphology in the Kathmandu Valley varieties was entirely derived from nominalizers as the original system of verb agreement was lost. The mechanism for this process would been non-embedded nominalization, a common syntactic pattern of Tibeto-Burman.