On the etymology of auditive in Samoyedic (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper proposes an etymology of the auditive forms in Samoyedic languages. It is argued that the auditive goes back to the imperfective verbal noun, namely to that with the suffix *-mon, which has been conserved in Nganasan and left traces in Nenets. Its use as an auditive originates from constructions like ‘his coming is heard’. Since it was more or less the only contexts where it was used as a subject, the verb could be dropped, and the nominative (in most cases plural) form of the verbal noun has been grammaticalised in the auditive meaning. Paper published in Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen Band 41 2017, 132-151.

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