EBATA, Fuyuki. 2013. Bare nominal secondary predicates in Sakha (Yakut). Altai hakpo 23. 179-189. The Altaic Society of Korea.

In Sakha (Yakut), bare nominals can be employed to function as a secondary predicate. The secondary predicate forms a depictive construction, and it describes the temporal state of the subject in intransitive clauses or that of the object in transitive clauses. Though Sakha bare nominals do not function adverbially, secondary predicates do serve as an adverbial phrase in a secondary predicate construction. Semantic type of verbs plays a significant role in the clause structure with a secondary predicate. It is with a transportation, giving-and-receiving, movement, stative, or change-of-state verb that the bare nominal secondary predicate construction is allowed. Semantically the target of the secondary predicate must be a concrete nominal, and the secondary predicate itself takes on a non-gradual meaning. Syntactically the secondary predicate usually occupies the immediate preverbal position, but it can be in other positions unless it is situated before the target.

Keywords: Sakha, morphosyntax, bare nominal, secondary predicate, verb type
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