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Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking

  • Jürgen Bohnemeyer EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 25. September 2007
Cognitive Linguistics
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Abstract

Guerssel et al.'s (1985) generalizations regarding the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking (C&B, hereafter) are reanalyzed based on the principles of Morpholexical Transparency and Complete Linking. A working hypothesis according to which the C&B domain is universally exhaustively partitioned into argument structure classes of C&B verbs is proposed and tested against a corpus of data from 17 languages. Counterevidence to the hypothesis includes bipolar verbs that are semantically specific both on the state change and its cause and a language that lacks cut verbs, framing severance as state change. The survey suggests that universals of argument structure include the principles of Morpholexical Transparency and Complete Linking, but not specific verb classes.

Keywords: cut and break; separation events; argument structure; verb semantics; lexicon-syntax interface; typology
*Author's contact information: Department of Linguistics, University at Buffalo—SUNY, 609 Baldy Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Received: 2005-05-07
Revised: 2006-11-04
Published Online: 2007-09-25
Published in Print: 2007-09-19

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Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective
  2. Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking
  3. How similar are semantic categories in closely related languages? A comparison of cutting and breaking in four Germanic languages
  4. Cutting, breaking, and tearing verbs in Hindi and Tamil
  5. Cut and break verbs in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island
  6. ‘Chop, shred, snap apart’: Verbs of cutting and breaking in Lowland Chontal
  7. Cut and break verbs in Sranan
  8. Cut and break verbs in Ewe and the causative alternation construction
  9. ‘Smash it again, Sam’: Verbs of cutting and breaking in Jalonke
  10. Describing cutting and breaking events in Kuuk Thaayorre
  11. ‘He cut-break the rope’: Encoding and categorizing cutting and breaking events in Mandarin
  12. Lao separation verbs and the logic of linguistic event categorization
  13. ‘Please open the fish’: Verbs of separation in Tidore, a Papuan language of Eastern Indonesia
  14. Cutting and breaking verbs in Otomi: An example of lexical specification
  15. ‘She had just cut/broken off her head’: Cutting and breaking verbs in Tzeltal
  16. Semantic categories of cutting and breaking: Some final thoughts
https://doi.org/10.1515/COG.2007.006
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
cut and break; separation events; argument structure; verb semantics; lexicon-syntax interface; typology

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. The semantic categories of cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective
  2. Morpholexical Transparency and the argument structure of verbs of cutting and breaking
  3. How similar are semantic categories in closely related languages? A comparison of cutting and breaking in four Germanic languages
  4. Cutting, breaking, and tearing verbs in Hindi and Tamil
  5. Cut and break verbs in Yélî Dnye, the Papuan language of Rossel Island
  6. ‘Chop, shred, snap apart’: Verbs of cutting and breaking in Lowland Chontal
  7. Cut and break verbs in Sranan
  8. Cut and break verbs in Ewe and the causative alternation construction
  9. ‘Smash it again, Sam’: Verbs of cutting and breaking in Jalonke
  10. Describing cutting and breaking events in Kuuk Thaayorre
  11. ‘He cut-break the rope’: Encoding and categorizing cutting and breaking events in Mandarin
  12. Lao separation verbs and the logic of linguistic event categorization
  13. ‘Please open the fish’: Verbs of separation in Tidore, a Papuan language of Eastern Indonesia
  14. Cutting and breaking verbs in Otomi: An example of lexical specification
  15. ‘She had just cut/broken off her head’: Cutting and breaking verbs in Tzeltal
  16. Semantic categories of cutting and breaking: Some final thoughts
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