Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages

Laughren, Mary

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“…Paul 1919: 49-51), or a participant in an infinitival construction like that in (23). These observations, and the behaviour of depictives in reflexive clauses, also led Laughren (1992) to conclude that the controllers of depictives are semantic participants (in her terminology, arguments in Lexical Conceptual Structure), not syntactic arguments. Müller (2000) makes a similar suggestion.…”

Section: Syntactic Function Of the Controllermentioning

confidence: 94%

Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective

Schultze-Berndt¹,

Himmelmann²

2004

Linguistic Typology

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Little is known about depictive secondary predicates such as raw in She ate the fish raw in languages other than a few European ones. The goal of this paper is to broaden the database for this grammatical construction by reviewing its recurring formal properties, introducing a crosslinguistically applicable definition and delimiting it from other, semantically and/or morphosyntactically similar constructions. In particular, we will show that the distinction between depictives and adverbials is much less clearcut, both in formal and semantic terms, than is often assumed. First, languages may not formally distinguish the two construction types. Second, in languages with genuine depictive constructions distinct from adverbials, expressions that have generally been analysed as adverbials (e.g., expressions of concomitance, manner, location, and even time) may exhibit the formal properties of depictives. As a consequence, we argue that adverbial and depictive constructions are in competition, in the sense that languages may have different cut-off points for the two construction types on an implicational hierarchy ranging from typical depictive content to typical adverbial content.

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Section: Syntactic Function Of the Controllermentioning

confidence: 94%

Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective

Schultze-Berndt¹,

Himmelmann²

2004

Linguistic Typology

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“…Both Warlpiri and Warlmanpa are 'free word order' languages (constraints are analysed in Laughren 2002;and Simpson and Mushin 2008) in which nominals co-referent Warlpiri has been the subject of extensive research, particularly in regard to phonological, morphological, and syntactic analysis, as well as language contact (Hale 1973(Hale , 1976(Hale , 1981a(Hale , 1981b(Hale , 1982(Hale , 1983Nash 1980Nash , 2008Swartz 1982Swartz , 1991Bavin and Shopen 1985;Simpson 1988Simpson , 1991Simpson , 2005Simpson , 2007Laughren 1989Laughren , 1992Laughren , 2010Laughren , 2017Bittner and Hale 1995;Hale et al 1995;Legate 2001Legate , 2002Legate , 2008Granites and Laughren 2001;Pentland and Laughren 2004;Harvey and Baker 2005;O'Shannessy 2005;Bowler 2014Bowler , 2016Bowler , 2017Bundgaard-Nielsen and O'Shannessy 2019;Browne 2020). Warlmanpa has been less wellstudied, but has been the subject of a vocabulary and grammatical analysis (Nash 1979;Browne 2021, respectively).…”

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On the Integration of Dative Adjuncts into Event Structures in Yapa Languages

Browne

2021

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Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa languages of Australia) exhibit a complex predicate construction in which a class of preverbs introduces a single argument that is not shared by the argument structure of the inflecting verb, nor is there necessarily any shared event structure. This is problematic for many theories of linking structures of complex predicates, since no arguments or events are shared between the predicative elements of the complex predicate. The same grammatical relation is instantiated by a beneficiary adjunct. In light of new research in event and argument structure, I propose a lexical rule which introduces an applicative argument to account for the beneficiary construction; and that the preverbs take another predicate as one of their arguments to account for the complex predicates. The applicative rule and the preverbs both introduce an argument of the same grammatical relation, leading to interesting interactions, given that two grammatical relations of the same type are not expected to co-occur within a single clause.

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“…The provisional table below was informed by searches of the Warlpiri Dictionary, and by consulting sources such as Bittner & Hale (1995), Evans & Wilkins (2000), Hale (1974) and Laughren (1992). Verbs are given in present tense form.…”

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Talking about our Bodies and their Parts in Warlpiri

Wierzbicka

Goddard

2017

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Linguists generally assume that all languages have some words for parts of the human body such as 'head', 'hands', 'mouth' and 'legs', but it is not so widely agreed that speakers of all languages can speak-or even consciously think-of the designata of such words as 'parts of the body'. In particular, it has been claimed that the Australian language Warlpiri lacks any suitable lexical equivalent of 'part(s)'. Using data from the Warlpiri English Encyclopedic Dictionary, this study contests this claim, arguing that the relevant sense of 'part' exists in Warlpiri as one sense of the polysemous closed-class item yangka (whose main meaning can be stated, roughly, as 'that one, you know the one'). Our argument is framed within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to meaning analysis, according to which meanings are stated as substitutable, cross-translatable paraphrases. NSM researchers have long maintained that PART(S) is a universal semantic prime, i.e. an indefinable meaning expressible by words or phrases in all human languages. The study also considers broader issues to do with semantic theory, polysemy and translation.

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Secondary predication as a diagnostic of underlying structure in Pama-Nyungan languages

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Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective

Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective

On the Integration of Dative Adjuncts into Event Structures in Yapa Languages

Talking about our Bodies and their Parts in Warlpiri

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