Three Notes on Early Austronesian Morphology

Blust, Robert

doi:10.1353/ol.2003.0018

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“…In our study, we provide a rich answer to this question through the model of Polarity Flexibility. Blust (2003) investigates the adjective circum-fixing in Austronesian morphology and points out to the fact that syntax has an influence in the morphology. introduces the novel concept of basket verb and shows how the cognitive processing influences the syntax.…”

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Russian and Negative Prefixing: A Cognitive-Semantic Approach to the Negative Adjective Prefixing in Russian, Spanish, Persian, and English

Singh¹

2018

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Negative prefixing has always been an important and intriguing morphological process, through which adjectives are formed in many different languages. However, there are limits to negative prefixing. In this study, we introduce the novel concept of Polarity Flexibility, through which the limitations for the negative prefixing are accounted for. Furthermore, we conducted an experiment to investigate whether the PF is an active cognitive process. The results of the experiment confirm our hypothesis and the fact that Polarity Flexibility does indeed influence the cognitive processing. In our study, we introduce the notion of the syntactic arrangement which influences the negative prefixing. Therefore, we compare Russian, Persian, Spanish and English in negative prefixing to show how much the cognitive processes are influenced by the syntactic formations. Russian as a representative of Slavic languages brings an important insight into the way syntax plays role in the semantic-cognitive context.

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Russian and Negative Prefixing: A Cognitive-Semantic Approach to the Negative Adjective Prefixing in Russian, Spanish, Persian, and English

Singh¹

2018

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“…Intuitively, the choice could be idiosyncratic and attributed to historical reasons. The reconstruction of early Austronesian prefixes in Blust (2003; provides a possible solution. 23 According to the reconstruction, there are different types of *ka-; some are attached to verbal roots, conveying meanings related to inchoative, stative, or manner, and some to nominal roots, indicating notions such as past time.…”

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Verbal marking, intransitivity, and argument structure

Chen

2024

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This paper provides an intransitive analysis for an array of predicates which exhibit specific marking patterns in Budai Rukai. Contra previous lexical approaches, it is argued that a verbal prefix found on the predicates instantiates a functional head v, which constructs an intransitive vP. Its spell-out form is conditioned by its interaction with other higher functional categories, including tense, causative, passive, and complementizer. With respect to intransitivity, the resulting vP does not admit an accusative object, and it exhibits unergative, unaccusative, and anticausative properties. Regarding argument structure, these predicates are mostly one-place predicates. The sole argument is the grammatical subject which usually denotes an affected theme or an experiencer.

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“…STATIVE PREFIX *ma-IN SEEDIQ. PAN possessed a distinct affix *ma-that marks stative verbs(Blust 2013(Blust [2009;Ross 2015). Consider the examples in (10).…”

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“…. The affix mu-has yet another function reconstructable to PAN: as a motion prefix attached to nominal stems(Blust 2003a;Adelaar 2014). As this function is not reflected in Tgdaya Seediq, I do not discuss it in this paper.WHEN SOUND CHANGE OBSCURES MORPHOSYNTAX…”

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When Sound Change Obscures Morphosyntax: Insights from Seediq

Chen

2023

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The Formosan language Seediq displays an understudied case of morphological opacity, where a single phonological innovation has resulted in the syncretism of five Proto-Austronesian functional affixes in affirmative declaratives. How and why these affixes remain functionally intact in modern Seediq has important implications for understanding the tension and interplay between semantic transparency and morphological opacity. In this squib, I demonstrate that the marginal overlap of these affixes' lexical subcategorization may have reduced obstacles to learnability and processing, enabling them to remain functionally distinct despite the absence of morphological distinctions. The case of Seediq therefore highlights the often-neglected fact that sound change-induced morphological opacity may obscure but not necessarily obliterate syntax.

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Three Notes on Early Austronesian Morphology

Cited by 36 publications

References 28 publications

Russian and Negative Prefixing: A Cognitive-Semantic Approach to the Negative Adjective Prefixing in Russian, Spanish, Persian, and English

Russian and Negative Prefixing: A Cognitive-Semantic Approach to the Negative Adjective Prefixing in Russian, Spanish, Persian, and English

Verbal marking, intransitivity, and argument structure

When Sound Change Obscures Morphosyntax: Insights from Seediq

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