Qualitative comparison in Warlpiri: semantic case, adposition and/or derivational affix?

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    Abstract

    The Central Australian Pama-Nyungan language Warlpiri has a suffix �piya expressing resemblance. Morphologically, it is a semantic case, and not a derivational affix. Semantically it is a two-place predicate. Syntactically, it acts in a similar way to adpositions. As the main predicate of a clause it is subcategorised for SUBJECT and OBJECT. As the predicate of an ADJUNCT it is subcategorised for an OBJECT (at least) and bears a case feature which allows the ADJUNCT to consist of more than one element through agreement. �piya takes additional case marking (�case stacking�) to indicate which argument or adjunct it is predicated of. In main clause and ADJUNCT use it is prototypically used to compare entities, but it can be used to compare events through pragmatic inference. Rarely, it attaches to verbs (nominalised or finite), and compares events directly. In this latter use it is a discourse particle with no syntactic arguments. Its LFG lexical entry allows a simple representation of the relation between its different functions.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the LFG-20 Conference
    EditorsMiriam Butt, Ida Toivonen
    Place of PublicationOnline
    PublisherCSLI Publications
    Pages349�362
    Publication statusPublished - 2020
    Event25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (LGF-20) - online
    Duration: 1 Jan 2020 → …
    http://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/LFG/LFG-2020/index.shtml

    Conference

    Conference25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (LGF-20)
    Period1/01/20 → …
    OtherJune 23-25, 2020
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