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Title: | Dynamic ter- in Malay (Bahasa Melayu): A study in grammatical polysemy | Contributor(s): | Goddard, Cliff (author) | Publication Date: | 2003 | DOI: | 10.1075/sl.27.2.04god | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2084 | Abstract: | This paper undertakes a fine-grained semantic analysis of some of the multiple uses of the polyfunctional verbal prefix ter- in Malay (Bahasa Melayu), the national language of Malaysia. The analysis is conducted within the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework originated by Anna Wierzbicka, supported by examples drawn from a large corpus of naturally occuring Malay texts. The main goals are to accurately describe the full range of meanings, and to decide to what extent apparent differences are contextually-induced as opposed to being semantically encoded. In the end, seven distinct but interrelated lexico-semantic schemas are identified, constituting a network of grammatical polysemy. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Studies in Language, 27(2), p. 287-322 | Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1569-9978 0378-4177 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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