obl:arg: oblique argument
The relation obl:arg for oblique arguments and distinguishes them from adjuncts (such as specifications of time, location, manner or instrument), which use the plain obl relation. Two types of oblique arguments are marked by obl:arg in the UD_Classical_Armenian-CAVaL treebank:
- Agents expressed by the genitive case in the periphrastic perfect tenses:
զինչ ՞ գործ գործեալ է քո [Gen] : \n What have you done ?
obl:arg(գործեալ, քո)
- Recipient-like participants expressed by the prepositional construction ց=/cՙ= plus the accusative:
Եւ հարցանէր ց նա ՝ թե զինչ ՞ անունէ քո : \n And he asked him , What is thy name ?
obl:arg(հարցանէր, նա)
References
Jensen, Hans. 1959. Altarmenische Grammatik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Klein, Jared. 2017. The syntax of Armenian. In: J. Klein et al. (eds.), Handbook of comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter: 1097‒1115.
Kölligan, Daniel. 2013. Non-canonical subject marking. Genitive subjects in Classical Armenian. I. Seržant, L. Kulikov (eds.), The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects. Amsterdam: Benjamins: 73‒89.
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