Hi!
I haven't found anywhere a satisfying name for a particular use of the past participle in Western Armenian.
First of all, I need to precise there are 2 forms of past participles in that variety (I use the common romanization standard for Armenian, which does not correspond to the Western pronunciation):
*a passive past participle in -ած (-ac), e.g. սիրուած է siruac ê ''he is loved'', from siruil ''to be loved'';
*2 active past participles, one in -ած too (but with active verbs), and the other one in -եր (-er), e.g. սիրած/սիրեր է sirac/sirer ê ''he has loved'', from sirel ''to love'' (there are slight differences between those forms).
There is a peculiar use of -ած with possessives/genitives. Here is a quotation from Riggs, E., A Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language as Spoken in Constantinople and Asia Minor, 1856, page 56, which despite its date of release remains a reference.
This is how the sentence is formed: My build-first.past.participle house-first.person.affix.
The genitive of ''I'' paired with 1st person affix is the normal way to express first person possession.
So do you know what that is called? Maybe middle voice participial construction? And does it occur in other languages (maybe Turkish)?
Thank you
I haven't found anywhere a satisfying name for a particular use of the past participle in Western Armenian.
First of all, I need to precise there are 2 forms of past participles in that variety (I use the common romanization standard for Armenian, which does not correspond to the Western pronunciation):
*a passive past participle in -ած (-ac), e.g. սիրուած է siruac ê ''he is loved'', from siruil ''to be loved'';
*2 active past participles, one in -ած too (but with active verbs), and the other one in -եր (-er), e.g. սիրած/սիրեր է sirac/sirer ê ''he has loved'', from sirel ''to love'' (there are slight differences between those forms).
There is a peculiar use of -ած with possessives/genitives. Here is a quotation from Riggs, E., A Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language as Spoken in Constantinople and Asia Minor, 1856, page 56, which despite its date of release remains a reference.
He then gives an example which I am going to clarify:
Im šin-ac tun-s
This is how the sentence is formed: My build-first.past.participle house-first.person.affix.
The genitive of ''I'' paired with 1st person affix is the normal way to express first person possession.
So do you know what that is called? Maybe middle voice participial construction? And does it occur in other languages (maybe Turkish)?
Thank you
