Converb
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Examples
(1) Russian (Weiss 1995:259)Okonchiv desjatiletku, ja osen'ju byl prizvan v Armiju.
'Having finished ten years of school, in autumn I was drafted into the Army.'
(2) Italian (Pusch
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Okonchiv desjatiletku, ja osen'ju byl prizvan v Armiju.
'Having finished ten years of school, in autumn I was drafted into the Army.'
(2) Italian (Pusch
1980:107)
C'è una donna che guadagna danaro accompagnando nuovi membri.
'There's a woman who earns money by accompanying new members.'
C'è una donna che guadagna danaro accompagnando nuovi membri.
'There's a woman who earns money by accompanying new members.'
Comments
The notionSubtypes
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None.Synonyms
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- Russian
deepricastie: This term does not have an exact English equivalent. In Nedjalkov (1995), converb was used as the English equivalent of deepricastie (cf. Nedjalkov 1990), but in English-language Slavic linguistic, converb is never used to render deepricastie. Also, some Russian linguists have started using this the term konverb. - gerund: This is the most widely found alternative term for converb, especially in Romance, Turkic and other Eurasian languages.
- gerundive (2)
- absolutive (verb form)
- adverbial participle
- half participle
- conjunctive participle
Origin
The term converb was coined by Ramstedt (1903:55) for Mongolian and until recently was mostly used by specialists of Mongolic and Turkic languages. Nedjalkov & Nedjalkov (1987) first adopted the term for general typological use, followed by Haspelmath & König (1995).References
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- Bickel, B. 1998. ‘Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective’ [Review article on Haspelmath & König (eds.) 1995.]
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- Haspelmath, Martin. 1995. ‘The converb as a cross-linguistically valid category’. In Haspelmath, M. & E. König
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- Haspelmath, M. 1999. ‘Converbs’. In Brown K. & J. Miller (eds.), Concise encyclopedia of grammatical
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- König, E. 1995. ‘The meaning of converb constructions’. In Haspelmath, M. & E. König (eds.), Converbs in
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- Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. 1990. 'Osnovnye tipy deepricastij.' In:
Xrakovskij, Viktor S. (ed.)
Tipologija i grammatika. Moskva: Nauka, 36-59. - Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. 1995. ‘Some typological parameters of converbs’. In Haspelmath, M. & E. König (eds.), Converbs
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- Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. & Nedjalkov, Igor’ V. 1987. 'On the
typological characteristics of converbs.' In: Toomas Help (ed.)
Symposium on language universals. Tallinn, 75-79. - Noonan, Michael. 1999. ‘Converbal constructions in Chantyal’. In Yadava, Y. & W. Glover (eds.), Topics in Nepalese
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- Pusch, Luise. 1980. ...
- Tikkanen, Bertil. 2001. ‘Converbs’. In Haspelmath, M., E.
König, W. Österreicher & W. Raible (eds.).
Language
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- van der Auwera, J. 1998. ‘Defining converbs’. In Kulikov, L.
& H. Vater (eds.),
Typology of the verbal
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- Ylikoski, J. 2003. ‘Defining non-finites: action nominals,
converbs and infinitives’.
SKY Journal of Linguistics 16. 185-237. - Weiss, Daniel. 1995. 'Russian converbs: a typological outline.'
In: Haspelmath, Martin & König, Ekkehard (eds.) 1995.
Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 239-282.