Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: a cognitive semantic account
Abstract This paper investigates the phenomenon of ‘classificatory verbs’, i.e. a set of motion and positional verbs that show stem alternations depending on the semantic features of one of their arguments in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì (Dogrib), based on field notes and documentary sources of the language. The p...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/folia-2020-2073 2024-09-09T19:38:15+00:00 Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: a cognitive semantic account Al-Bataineh, Hussein 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/folia-2020-2073 https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/flin/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-folia-2020-2073/article-10.1515-folia-2020-2073.xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/folia-2020-2073/xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/folia-2020-2073/pdf en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH Folia Linguistica volume 0, issue 0 ISSN 1614-7308 0165-4004 journal-article 2021 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/folia-2020-2073 2024-08-26T04:09:15Z Abstract This paper investigates the phenomenon of ‘classificatory verbs’, i.e. a set of motion and positional verbs that show stem alternations depending on the semantic features of one of their arguments in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì (Dogrib), based on field notes and documentary sources of the language. The paper shows that Tłı̨chǫ classificatory verbal categories belong to four semantic subclasses which have inconsistent stem inventories caused by the presence or absence of some semantic features. Stem inventories of locative verb systems vary depending on the scalar [ effort ] feature, and those of motion verbs correlate with the scalar [ agentive ] feature. The paper explains why other semantically related verbs do not show stem alternations and proposes contrastive hierarchies to represent variations in stem inventories intra- and cross-linguistically assuming that the selection of a stem for a particular semantic category follows a series of binary choices that characterize the opposition’s active in the language. Article in Journal/Newspaper Dogrib Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì De Gruyter Folia Linguistica 0 0 |
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Abstract This paper investigates the phenomenon of ‘classificatory verbs’, i.e. a set of motion and positional verbs that show stem alternations depending on the semantic features of one of their arguments in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì (Dogrib), based on field notes and documentary sources of the language. The paper shows that Tłı̨chǫ classificatory verbal categories belong to four semantic subclasses which have inconsistent stem inventories caused by the presence or absence of some semantic features. Stem inventories of locative verb systems vary depending on the scalar [ effort ] feature, and those of motion verbs correlate with the scalar [ agentive ] feature. The paper explains why other semantically related verbs do not show stem alternations and proposes contrastive hierarchies to represent variations in stem inventories intra- and cross-linguistically assuming that the selection of a stem for a particular semantic category follows a series of binary choices that characterize the opposition’s active in the language. |
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Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: a cognitive semantic account |
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Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: a cognitive semantic account |
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Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: a cognitive semantic account |
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Alternations of classificatory verb stems in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì: a cognitive semantic account |
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