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The rise and resolution of viewpoint aspectual ambiguity in Transeurasian reconstruction

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Robbeets,  Martine
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Robbeets, M. (2019). The rise and resolution of viewpoint aspectual ambiguity in Transeurasian reconstruction. In É. Á. Csató, L. Johanson, & B. Karakoç (Eds.), Ambiguous Verb Sequences in Transeurasian Languages and Beyond (pp. 241-264). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. doi:10.2307/j.ctvx1hw37.17.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-57E3-4
Abstract
In this paper, I deal with the coincidence of intraterminal and postterminal readings in certain converb constructions across the Transeurasian languages and suggest that some of these may be given a diachronic explanation by reconstructing an ancestral stage, whereby the viewpoint-aspectual reading of the converb marker was determined by the actional interpretation of the base verb. To this end, I use Johanson’s terminology both in referring to the so-called “Transeurasian” languages and in conceptualizing dimensions of aspectual terminality. Johanson & Robbeets (2009: 1–2) coined the term “Transeurasian” to refer to a grouping of about 50 geographically adjacent, typologically similar and