VerbForm: form of verb or deverbative
| Values: | Conv | Fin | Inf | Part | Vnoun |
Conv: converb
The converb is a non-finite verb form that shares properties of verbs and adverbs. In Classical Armenian, it applies to an indeclinable predicative verbal forms in -ոց/-ocʻ used in the analytical necessitive/future construction with the copula.
Examples
- կարէ՞ք ըմպել զբաժակն զոր ես ըմպելոցն եմ / karē?kʻ əmpel zbažakn zor es əmpelocʻn em “Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of”
Fin: finite verb
Rule of thumb: if it has non-empty Mood, it is finite. In Classical Armenian, this applies to indicative, imperative, and subjunctive forms.
Examples
- բերեմ/berem “I carry”
Inf: infinitive
It appears as the argument of modal and other verbs. In Classical Armenian, one should distinguish between the indeclinable infinitive and the declinable verbal noun (see below), which is often referred to as “infinitive” in the traditional grammars.
Examples
- բերել/berel “to carry”
Part: participle
Classical Armenian has one type of participles, the past participle, which is used either in an attributive or predicative function, alone or as part of periphrastic tenses. Participles inflect for Number and Case.
Examples
- բերեալ/bereal “carry”
Vnoun: verbal noun
In the nominative case the verbal noun coincides with the infinitive. Its UPOS tag is VERB (not NOUN). Adpositions and determiners apart, the dependents of verbal nouns are consistently tagged as verbal arguments and not as nominal modifiers.
Examples
- բերել/berel, gen.sg. բերելոյ/bereloy “carrying”
References
Առաքելեան, Վարագ. 2010. Գրաբարի քերականութիւն. Երևան: Վիամիր․ [Araqelian, Varag. 2010. Grammar of Grabar. Yerevan: Viamir]
Jensen, Hans. 1959. Altarmenische Grammatik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Meillet, Antoine. 1913. Altarmenisches Elementarbuch. Heidelberg: Winters (Internet Archive)
Weitenberg, Jos. 1986. Infinitive and participle in Armenian. Annual of Armenian linguistics 7: 1‒26.
VerbForm in other languages: [ab] [abq] [akk] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cu] [cy] [el] [eme] [en] [es] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gub] [gun] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [kpv] [ky] [la] [mdf] [myv] [orv] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl]