Lexical Semantics

Cançado, Márcia; Gonçalves, Anabela

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“…Each stem type has five descriptive statistical values. Based on the mean values, the prefix is most frequently used with verb stems (7,1), followed by adjective stems (6,3) and noun stems (5,9). These values suggest that the prefix may primarily facilitate the transformation of verb stems into verb constructions.…”

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Analyzing Prefix /me(N)-/ in the Indonesian Affixation: A Corpus-Based Morphology

Nugraha

2024

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This paper presents a corpus-based study of the prefix /me(N)-/ in Indonesian, a productive affix used to form predicative constructions. The analysis was based on the Indonesian – Leipzig Corpora Collection (ILCC). It explored the prefix’s distribution, functions, and productivity, focusing on its role in encoding semantic and syntactic features. The results showed that the prefix /me(N)-/ was predominantly used to derive verbs, accounting for over 68,7% at the mean value of 7,1. However, /me(N)-/ was also employed to derive adjectives, albeit less frequently (19.4%), at the mean value of 6,3, and about 12% of forming new words from noun stems (mean value was about 5,9). Semantically, the prefix can uniquely express causative (49,24% at a mean value of 43), instrumental (11,45% at a mean value of 10), reflexive (19,47 at a mean value of 17), possessive/state meanings (10,31% at a mean value of 9), and reciprocal (9,54% at a mean value of 8,3). Derived verbs with the prefix /me(N)-/ had syntactic functions influenced by their semantic meaning. Some of the most common and distinctive syntactic functions of /me(N)-/ are form monovalent (29,18% having a mean value of 27,33), bivalent (48,40% having a mean value of 45,33), and trivalent (22,42% having a mean value of 21). The study demonstrated that /me(N)-/ was highly productive. Future research could examine the cognitive and processing mechanisms involved in understanding /me(N)-/-derived words.

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Analyzing Prefix /me(N)-/ in the Indonesian Affixation: A Corpus-Based Morphology

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2024

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“…Malicka-Kleparska 2017; Rościńska-Frankowska 2012; Szcześniak 2008), Romance (e.g. Cançado & Gonçalves 2016) or Germanic languages (e.g. Piñón 2001).…”

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Linguistica Silesiana

2022

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This study investigates learners' processing of English unaccusative verbs in the inchoative frame (The door opened; Oil is spilling). Previous approaches explained L2 difficulty with the inchoative construction in terms of learners' L1 and their perception of discourse or semantic factors hypothesized to be responsible for common overpassivization errors (The door was opened). The purpose of the present study is to complement the extant inventory by proposing an additional factor instrumental in L2 processing. It is hypothesized that L2 use of unaccusative verbs is contingent on learners' familiarity with formulaic expressions exemplifying the inchoative construction. The study focuses on the entrenchment of frequent phrases like My jaw dropped in Czech and Polish learners. In a lexical decision task, their reaction times for frequent expressions were found to be faster and fewer mistakes were made than in the case of non-formulaic counterparts (My hair dropped).

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“…(29) v: {X, stative/reference object/motivating object} Cançado and Gonçalves (2016) and Cançado and Amaral (2016) propose, based on Levin (2010), that verbal classes can be analyzed at different levels, according to their degree of specificity. In our work, it is interesting to distinguish between two of these levels: the medium-grained, which is a medium level, and the coarse-grained, which is a more general level.…”

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The Alternation of Verbs With Motivating Argument in Bp: A Type of Factoring of Argument

Meirelles

2023

Alfa, rev. linguíst. (São José Rio Preto)

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In this paper, we analyze a type of alternation that allows to express the complex constituent, which is originally in the object position, in two different syntactic positions, such as in the sentences: os alunos admiram o brilhantismo do professor [students admire the teacher’s brilliance]/os alunos admiram o professor pelo brilhantismo [students admire the teacher for his brilliance]. For the analysis of this phenomenon, we used the proposal of thematic papers as a cluster of discrete semantic properties of Cançado (2005) and Cançado and Amaral (2016)). We propose that the analyzed alternation results from the factoring of the complex verb argument, being determined by semantic restrictions of nominal and verbal level. At the first level, the complex arguments which can be factored must denote a possession relationship, as in the phrase o brilhantismo do professor [the brilliance of the teacher] or the relationship between an eventive name and its agent, such as the nominal phrase a excelente atuação do artista [the excellent performance of the artist] in the alternation o público aplaudiu a excelente atuação do artista [the audience applauded the excellent performance of the artist]/o público aplaudiu o artista por sua excelente atuação [the audience applauded the artist for his excellent performance]. At the verbal level, the verbs that perform this alternation can be grouped into a coarse-grained class (LEVIN, 2010), as they all attribute the semantic properties estativo [estative], objeto de referência [reference object] and objeto motivador [motivating object] to their complex argument, which can be factored. Finally, we propose that the alternation is motivated by pragmatic factors related to the informational structure of the analyzed statements.

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Lexical Semantics

Cited by 8 publications

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Analyzing Prefix /me(N)-/ in the Indonesian Affixation: A Corpus-Based Morphology

Analyzing Prefix /me(N)-/ in the Indonesian Affixation: A Corpus-Based Morphology

Linguistica Silesiana

The Alternation of Verbs With Motivating Argument in Bp: A Type of Factoring of Argument

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