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Describing cutting and breaking events in Kuuk Thaayorre
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Alice Gaby
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September 25, 2007
Abstract
This paper presents the key Thaayorre verbs associated with events of cutting and breaking. It examines their intensional and extensional ranges; comparing prototypical usages with non-prototypical extensions. Although these Thaayorre verbs categorize the C&B semantic domain largely in accordance with the crosslinguistic patterns reported by Majid et al. (this issue), there are several interesting points of divergence. These include the union of breaking and opening events encoded by thuuth ‘pull (apart)’, and the various changes in argument structure that Thaayorre C&B verbs may undergo.
Keywords: cut and break; separation events; Australian; Kuuk Thaayorre; verb semantics; argument structure; detransitivization
Received: 2004-11-23
Revised: 2006-07-20
Published Online: 2007-09-25
Published in Print: 2007-09-19
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Keywords for this article
cut and break;
separation events;
Australian;
Kuuk Thaayorre;
verb semantics;
argument structure;
detransitivization
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- Cut and break verbs in Sranan
- Cut and break verbs in Ewe and the causative alternation construction
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