The Nostratic "Accusative" in *-mA: An Altaic Perspective  

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Michalove, Peter A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 44 no. 1 (Mar. 2002), page 85-95.
Fulltext: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 85-95.pdf (1.27MB)

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The suffix in *-mA has been posited as an accusative suffix under- lying forms common to Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Dravidian. V. M. Illi&-Svity6 and others have considered this as evidence to support the Nostratic hypothesis, which proposes a genetic relationship among these and some other language families of Eurasia. The Altaic component of this comparison appears, on the basis of Illi&-Svityc's work, to be the weakest part of the comparison. However, a deeper examination of the Altaic forms shows them to be highly informative; they ultimately support the proposal of a common origin for this formative in all of the language families considered. The usages indicate that the original function of the suffix was not as a direct object marker, but as an indicator of specificity.

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