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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the LFG-20 Conference |
Editors | Miriam Butt, Ida Toivonen |
Place of Publication | Online |
Publisher | CSLI Publications |
Pages | 349�362 |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | 25th 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
Conference | 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference (LGF-20) |
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Period | 1/01/20 → … |
Other | June 23-25, 2020 |
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