Distributive Pluractionality and Plurality in Ingush: The case of G.uozh/lieg

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  • Daniel Bruhn
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Pluractionality, also referred to as verbal plurality (Yu 2003) or event plurality (Wood 2007), is a morphological category that indicates some sort of “multiplicity” in the semantic reading of a verb. The prototypical interpretation of a pluractional verb is that of iterativity (repeated actions). This reading is illustrated in the following examples from Ingush, a Nakh language of the Northeast Caucasus and the focus of this study, in which a pluractional verb differs from its simulfactive version in the stem vowel (or by suppletion):1

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تاریخ انتشار 2007