%0 Journal Article
%T Parts, Axial Parts, and Next Parts in Kannada
%A R. Amritavalli
%J Nordlyd : Troms£¿ University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics / Institutt for Spr£¿k og Litteratur, Universitetet i Troms£¿
%D 2007
%I University of Troms?
%X Nouns meaning ¡®place, region¡¯ and ¡®part¡¯ are compounded in Kannada with a `bleached¡¯ noun (a putative postposition) to form AxPart and Part readings. As in other languages, the AxPart or ¡®region¡¯ reading does not pluralize, does not permit adjectival modification, and allows for MeasureP modification (unlike the part reading). AxParts may also be formed out of nouns by the fusion of a dative marker or a genitive marker with the N; these case markers introduce the Place element. The dative case may be optionally overt (e.g. pakka-kke ¡®side-dative,¡¯ ¡®to a side¡¯), or covert (in AxParts like munde ¡®front¡¯). The genitive marker gives a sense of immediate adjacency that we designate the NextPart reading. Interestingly, the dative and genitive cases in Kannada also allow nouns to assume the function of predicative and attributive adjectives.
%K bleached nouns
%K part and axpart compounds
%K dative case
%K covert genitive case
%K immediate adjacency
%K category change
%U http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/107