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an online bibliography of pseudocoordination


Ainu

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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Ainu; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.5 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.

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Summary

Pseudocoordination in Ainu has been shaped by influenced from Japanese multi-verb constructions with converbs, with an unusual head-final configuration with multiple verbs taking on specific functions in the second position in pseudocoordination constructions.

Primary references

Bugaeva, Anna. 2018. Ainu complex predicates with reference to Japanese. In Prashant Pardeshi & Taro Kageyama (eds.), Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics, 247–272. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514077-009