Dynamic ter- in Malay (Bahasa Melayu): A study in grammatical polysemy

Title
Dynamic ter- in Malay (Bahasa Melayu): A study in grammatical polysemy
Publication Date
2003
Author(s)
Goddard, Cliff
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Place of publication
Netherlands
DOI
10.1075/sl.27.2.04god
UNE publication id
une:2152
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.
Link
Citation
Studies in Language, 27(2), p. 287-322
ISSN
1569-9978
0378-4177
Start page
287
End page
322

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