Dynamic ter - in Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
A study in grammatical polysemy
Cliff Goddard | University of New England, Australia
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.
Published online: 31 October 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.27.2.04god
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.27.2.04god
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