Schedule 76. StuTS

Nominalisation describes the process as well as the result of elements derived to be nouns. Comrie and Thompson (2007) distinguish between seven types of nominalisations: action/state nouns, agentive nouns, instrumental nouns, manner nouns, locative nouns, objective nouns, reason nouns.
This is a morphological study of deverbal nouns in the Wagi dialect of Beria (Zaghawa), an East-Saharan language of the Nilo-Saharan phylum, spoken in Chad and Sudan. The analysed data consist of a word list of ca. 200 Wagi deverbal nouns, elicited by linguist Roland C. Stevenson in the 1980s, and recent recordings of native speaker and linguist Elsadig Omda Ibrahim Elnur.
Wagi exhibits four different affixes used to form deverbal nouns. Their distribution is governed by the verb class of the derived verbal root, but there are also other factors such as derivational patterns. The suffix -la is used with class I verbs, the prefix V(C)- with class I and II, prefix Vkk(V)- with class II, and suffix -di with classes III and IV. Following Comrie and Thompson’s (2007) classification, most of them are inflectional action/state type nominalisations. However, the suffix -la can also be used to form derivational action nominals. Wagi also exhibits nominalisations where one argument of the verb is nominalised: the locative and the objective type.
Though limited in time and scope, the present study is able to expose some differences of the present analysis of the nominalising affixes compared to previous studies conducted on Beria deverbal nouns, thereby hopefully advancing the study of the underdescribed language.

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Day: 2024-11-23
Start time: 14:45
Duration: 00:30
Room: 00A02 CNMS
Track: Typology and Variational linguistics
Language: en

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