A Functional-Cognitive Interpretation of Syntactic Nominalization in Modern Written Mongolian

Lei Huang; Chengyu Liu

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A Functional-Cognitive Interpretation of Syntactic Nominalization in Modern Written Mongolian

Lei Huang, Chengyu Liu

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 2)

Received: 24 March 2022 Accepted: 9 April 2022 Published: 20 April 2022

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Verbal nominals in traditional descriptions of Mongolian are described in terms of their morphological properties or meanings. They are assumed to act either as subordinate clauses, gerunds or infinitives like those in English. However, there is no a clear and reasonable explanation as to how the nominalized structures with the presence of verbal nominal change from process to thing. This paper, on the other hand, recognizes the Mongolian verbal nominal as syntactic nominalization from the functional and cognitive perspectives, which can be further divided into nominative case-marked subject nominalization, genitive case-marked subject nominalization and subject-missing nominalization. The paper proposes a generative framework for the syntactic nominalization in which the clause with verbal nominal is rank-shifted into a nominal expression by packaging the encoded information, and consequently while the verbal nominal suffix is reanalyzed as a nominalized element of the whole phrase or clause, the dynamic process of the clause is reanalyzed as a static event, and then the lexical and structural meanings of the embedded clause are re-matched via coercion. The functional and cognitive description presented in this paper provides a functionally and cognitively motivated interpretation of the generation mechanism of the syntactic nominalization in Mongolian and the interactions between the levels of lexicogrammar and semantics.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 10, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20221002.20
Page(s)	132-142
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Mongolian Syntactic Nominalization, Rank-Shift, Reanalysis, Analogy, Coercion

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College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
Chengyu Liu

College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

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