@article{Kuokkala_2019, title={Saami -(š)goahti inchoatives: their variation, history, and suggested cognates in Veps and Mordvin}, volume={2019}, url={https://journal.fi/susa/article/view/75718}, DOI={10.33340/susa.75718}, abstractNote={<p>The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to give an overview of the morphological and areal variation of the Saami deverbal inchoative suffixes (North Saami -<em>goahti</em>- and -<em>šgoahti</em>-), and second, to give an updated account of the history of said suffixes. To achieve the latter, a critical survey is made of previous literature dealing with these Saami suffixes as well as the phonetically and semantically similar derivational suffixes in Mordvin (Erzya -<em>kado</em>-, -<em>gado</em>-) and in Veps and Ludic (-<em>gande</em>-, -<em>škande</em>- ~ -<em>gade</em>-, -<em>škade</em>-). Several kinds of etymological cognate or loan relations between these suffixes have been posited. In the present paper, however, it is argued that the Saami -<em>goahti</em>- suffix is not related to other Uralic suffixes, but instead results from the affixation of an independent verb (North Saami <em>boahtit</em> ‘to come’). The -<em>š</em>- element attaching to the suffix is explained as a remnant of another derivational suffix still found as an independent inchoative marker -<em>ahtja</em>- present from South Saami up to Lule Saami.</p>}, number={97}, journal={Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja}, author={Kuokkala, Juha}, year={2019}, month={touko}, pages={153–181} }