On the typological character of property concepts in Emai

Schaefer, Ronald P.; Egbokhare, Francis O.

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“…See also Wetzer 19921996 : 7-12, albeit with a caveat regarding COLOUR also noted by Croft 1991 : 136). 41 [41] Both Wetzer (1992Wetzer ( , 1996 and Schaefer & Egbokhare (1993) provide a more nuanced view of this generalization that is nonetheless congruent with its validity in a broad sense. Wetzer (1992Wetzer ( , 1996, based on a sample of more than 100 languages, takes into account the In Mandarin, the words that I have argued are adjectiveshóng 'red ', bái 'white ', kuān 'wide', gāo 'tall/high ' and lǎo 'old ' -fit easily into these categories.…”

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“…Schaefer & Egbokhare's (1993) discussion of Emai considers the role of nouns and verbs in the encoding of property concepts within a wider context of language change that supports grouping together the categories AGE, VALUE and COLOUR in terms of their means of expression. Taken together with the Alamblak examples, what these suggest is that, just as concepts pertaining to dimension, age, colour, and value are the natural province of adjectives, there are equally concepts such as malfunction, decay, deterioration, sickness and becoming non-sober, and also quite possibly growth, blooming, blossoming, ripening, melting, freezing, etc.…”

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“…Many of these notions correspond to what similarities in encoding that adjectives may show to nouns or verbs. Schaefer & Egbokhare's (1993) discussion of Emai considers the role of nouns and verbs in the encoding of property concepts within a wider context of language change that supports grouping together the categories AGE, VALUE and COLOUR in terms of their means of expression. Levin & Rappaport Hovav (1995 : 97) propose are 'internally caused changes of state '.…”

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Change of state verbs and result state adjectives in Mandarin Chinese

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2013

J. Ling.

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This paper investigates the derivational relationship between adjectives and verbs in Mandarin Chinese describing related state, change of state (COS) and caused COS meanings. Such paradigms have been observed in various languages to fall into two categories : One in which a word naming a property concept state constitutes the derivational base for the related COS verbs, and another in which a COS verb forms the basis from which the stative word -a ' result state' predicate -is derived. I show that in Mandarin, the distinction between morphological paradigms based on property-concept words versus eventive verbs is also found, but the actual derivational relations between verbs and adjectives are influenced by language-particular morphological properties of Mandarin. Specifically, I argue that a gradable property concept adjective systematically alternates to a related COS verb. This alternation, which can be tapped by degree modification and negation contexts, distinguishes adjectives from stative verbs, which do not have consistent COS counterparts, and from underived intransitive COS verbs, which do not have systematic stative counterparts. That is, I show that COS verbs do not lend themselves to the systematic derivation of result state adjectives. Rather, I argue that result state adjectives in Mandarin arise from conceptual-pragmatic factors : The nominal modified by such a result state adjective should be understood as describing a culturally or contextually salient class of entities.

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Change of state verbs and result state adjectives in Mandarin Chinese

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Linguistic fieldwork as team science

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Linguistic fieldwork is increasingly moving forward from the traditional model of lone fieldworker with a notebook to collaborative projects with key roles for native speakers and other experts and involving the use of different kinds of stimulus-based elicitation methods as well as extensive video documentation. Several cohorts of colleagues and students have been influenced by this inclusive and interdisciplinary view of linguistic fieldwork. We describe the challenges and benefits of doing multi-methods collaborative fieldwork. As linguistics inevitably moves into the direction of multiple methods, interdisciplinarity and team science, now is the time to reflect critically on how best to contribute to a cumulative science of language.

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On the typological character of property concepts in Emai

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Change of state verbs and result state adjectives in Mandarin Chinese

Change of state verbs and result state adjectives in Mandarin Chinese

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