An implicational map of parts of speech

Hengeveld, Kees; Lier, Eva van

doi:10.1349/ps1.1537-0852.a.348

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“…Following Haspelmath, I simply use the term 'function' here. Similarities in function are often rooted in semantics, but not always; functions can also be differentiated pragmatically(Hengeveld and Lier 2010) or syntactically(Haspelmath 1999), for instance.FEAST vol. 2, 2018…”

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Verb types and semantic maps

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2018

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Verb classifications for sign languages are typically based on agreement properties (Padden 1988) and have also been suggested to be semantically grounded (Meir 1998, 2002). In light of the latter proposition, it is surprising that the semantics of verb types have not been explored in much depth. This study aims to investigate the semantic underpinnings of verb types. It is hypothesized that the semantic properties that govern case-frame selection in spoken languages (Hopper and Thompson 1980; Tsunoda 1981) similarly mediate verb type in sign languages. The rationale behind this idea is that many such properties have the potential to be expressed iconically in sign language verb forms. Particular constellations of features are thus expected to increase the likelihood of a verb to be of a certain type. To test this hypothesis, a method previously used to investigate the connection between verb semantics and transitivity in spoken languages (Malchukov 2005) is applied to data from German Sign Language (DGS). Overall, the results lend credibility to the supposition that case marking systems in spoken languages and the verb-type system in sign languages are sensitive to the same underlying semantic factors, underscoring the centrality of these notions in language. In addition, the results offer a finer-grained picture of the semantics of verbs of different types, and enable us to formulate predictions about the scope of diachronic change and synchronic and cross-linguistic variation in this domain.

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Verb types and semantic maps

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2018

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“…It is furthermore worth noting that not a single language in the sample has basic question words for all categories. The representation in (19) is inspired by the way semantic maps are organized (see e.g., Haspelmath 2003), though what we have in (19) is an implicational map rather than a semantic map (see Hengeveld & van Lier 2010). Confirmation for the validity of this map may furthermore be found in the fact that in those cases in which languages use a single basic question word for more than one semantic category, these categories are contiguous within the map, as shown in (20)-(22) for the three combinations found.…”

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Semantic categories in the indigenous languages of Brazil

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This article investigates which semantic categories, as defined in Functional Discourse Grammar, formally manifest themselves in a sample of native languages of Brazil, and the extent to which the distribution of these manifestations across categories can be described systematically in terms of implicational hierarchies. The areas subjected to investigation are basic interrogative words, basic demonstrative words, and nominalization strategies.

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“…, in her response to our paper (Hengeveld and van Lier 2010), states that adding the connectivity constraint to the sets of constraints we propose in our implicational map of parts of speech would increase the accuracy of our model.…”

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