著者

佐藤 知己

出版者

北海道大学大学院文学研究科北方研究教育センター = Center for Northern Humanities, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

雑誌

北方人文研究 (ISSN:1882773X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.205-211, 2012-03-31

---

1. Introduction 2. Dialects of the Ainu language 3. The structure of the Ainu language 4. The historical relationships between Ainu and neighboring languages 5. Conclusion

著者

佐藤 知己

出版者

北海道立アイヌ民族文化研究センター

雑誌

北海道立アイヌ民族文化研究センター研究紀要 (ISSN:13412558)

巻号頁・発行日

no.21, pp.1-25, 2015-03

著者

佐藤 知己

出版者

北海道大学大学院文学研究科北方研究教育センター

雑誌

北方人文研究 (ISSN:1882773X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.55-68, 2008-03-31

---

It is known that Ainu has two types of compound noun constructions: the “modifying construction” and the “pseudo-modifying construction”. However, the term “modifying construction” from the outset contradicts the so-called “syntactic atomicity”of words, one of the most basic principles of word formation in general linguistic terms. Here, I suggest that among the compound nouns with the modifying construction, some are compound nouns exceptional in their construction, formed, as it were, directly from phrases (i.e. “phrase-word” by Bloomfield), while others are words containing a kind of verbal noun converted from the corresponding intransitive verb, formed, in turn, through “object-incorporation”. This assumption is supported by the fact that the number of compound nouns with the modifying construction is not so large in the lexicon as a whole (so, exceptional and marginal)and also supported by the fact that examples of the compound nouns with the modifying constituent “subject+transitive verb” are extremely few: the pattern “subject+transitive verb”is usually not possible as an intransitive verb with noun incorporation in Ainu, and therefore cannot be used as a verbal noun of the first member of a compound noun.