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New page: A '''converb''' is a non-finite verb form that serves to express adverbial subordination, i.e. notions like 'when', 'because', 'after', 'while'. === Examples === (1) Russian (We...

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A '''converb''' is a non-finite verb form that serves to express [[adverbial]] [[subordination]], i.e. notions like 'when', 'because', 'after', 'while'.

=== Examples ===

(1) Russian (Weiss 1995:259)

''Okonchiv desjatiletku, ja osen'ju byl prizvan v Armiju.''

'Having finished ten years of school, in autumn I was drafted into the Army.'

(2) Italian (Pusch 1980:107)

''C'è una donna che guadagna danaro accompagnando nuovi membri.''

'There's a woman who earns money by accompanying new members.'

=== Comments ===

The notion ''adverbial'' in the definition is relatively vague. ''Adverbial subordinate clause'' primarily contrasts with [[relative clause]] and [[complement clause]]. Non-finite verb forms that serve to express relative clauses are often called [[participle]], and non-finite verb forms that serve to express complement clauses are often called [[infinitive]], [[masdar]] or [[nominalization]]. The notion "non-finite" in the definition is problematic and arguably Indo-European-centered.

=== Subtypes ===

[[narrative]] vs. [[specialized]] converb (Nedjalkov 1995)

=== Polysemy ===

None.

=== Synonyms ===

* Russian [[deepricastie]]: This term does not have an exact English equivalent. In Nedjalkov (1995), converb was used as the English equivalent of deepricastie (cf. Nedjalkov 1990), but in English-language Slavic linguistic, converb is never used to render deepricastie. Also, some Russian linguists have started using this the term konverb.
* [[gerund]]: This is the most widely found alternative term for converb, especially in Romance, Turkic and other Eurasian languages.
* [[gerundive (2)]]
* [[absolutive (verb form)]]
* [[adverbial participle]]
* [[half participle]]
* [[conjunctive participle]]

=== Origin ===

The term converb was coined by Ramstedt (1903:55) for Mongolian and until recently was mostly used by specialists of Mongolic and Turkic languages. Nedjalkov & Nedjalkov (1987) first adopted the term for general typological use, followed by Haspelmath & König (1995).

=== References ===

*Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. 1990. "Osnovnye tipy deepricastij." In: Xrakovskij, Viktor S. (ed.) ''Tipologija i grammatika''. Moskva: Nauka, 36-59.
*Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. & Nedjalkov, Igor’ V. 1987. "On the typological characteristics of converbs." In: Toomas Help (ed.) ''Symposium on language universals.'' Tallinn, 75-79.
*Pusch, Luise. 1980. ...
*Weiss, Daniel. 1995. "Russian converbs: a typological outline." In: Haspelmath, Martin & König, Ekkehard (eds.) 1995. ''Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective.'' Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 239-282.

=== Other languages ===
German [[Konverb]]

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 === Synonyms ===
-* Russian [[deepricastie]]: This term does not have an exact English equivalent. In Nedjalkov (1995), converb was used as the English equivalent of deepricastie (cf. Nedjalkov 1990), but in English-language Slavic linguistic, converb is never used to render deepricastie. Also, some Russian linguists have started using this the term konverb.
+* Russian [[deepricastie]]: This term does not have an exact English equivalent. In [[Vladimir P. Nedjalkov|Nedjalkov]] (1995), converb was used as the English equivalent of deepricastie (cf. Nedjalkov 1990), but in English-language Slavic linguistic, converb is never used to render deepricastie. Also, some Russian linguists have started using this the term konverb.
 * [[gerund]]: This is the most widely found alternative term for converb, especially in Romance, Turkic and other Eurasian languages.
 * [[gerundive (2)]]

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 A '''converb''' is a non-finite verb form that serves to express [[adverbial]] [[subordination]], i.e. notions like 'when', 'because', 'after', 'while'.
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 === References ===
+*Bickel, B. 1998. ‘Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective’ [Review article on Haspelmath & König (eds.) 1995.]
 *Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. 1990. "Osnovnye tipy deepricastij." In: Xrakovskij, Viktor S. (ed.) ''Tipologija i grammatika''. Moskva: Nauka, 36-59.
 *Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. & Nedjalkov, Igor’ V. 1987. "On the typological characteristics of converbs." In: Toomas Help (ed.) ''Symposium on language universals.'' Tallinn, 75-79.
 *Pusch, Luise. 1980. ...
 *Weiss, Daniel. 1995. "Russian converbs: a typological outline." In: Haspelmath, Martin & König, Ekkehard (eds.) 1995. ''Converbs in cross-linguistic perspective.'' Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 239-282.