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題名: | Uses of Ter- in Malay: A Corpus-based Study | 作者: | 鍾曉芳 Chung, Siaw-Fong |
貢獻者: | 英文系 | 關鍵詞: | Standard Malay;ter-;Passive;Active;Corpus;Grammaticalization | 日期: | 2011 | 上傳時間: | 12-Nov-2013 | 摘要: | Many instances of ter- in Standard Malay of Malaysia have confusing active and passive forms (i.e., a construction such as [Noun TER-VP] can represent both active and passive functions). Two criteria, namely (a) substitution by a canonical passive marker, and (b) addition of the agentive phrase, are established in order to distinguish the passive and the active. Utilizing a modern corpus and a historical corpus, words comprised of passive terwere extracted and were then compared to the Malay canonical passive di- and the adversative passive kena. The results show that ter- appears less frequently than di- but more frequently than kena. Additionally, ter- is used informally in contexts related to personal daily life, typically denoting an unintended action. This study not only provides a criteria-based methodology to extract a particularmeaning from the multiple meanings of a grammatical morpheme, but also it discusses the grammaticalization process of these different functions of ter- utilizing corpora data. The results indicate that ter- develops from perfected to imperfected to stative forms in addition to other grammaticalization patterns such as from ability to possibility and from definite to superlative forms. | 關聯: | Journal of Pragmatics, 43(3), 799-813 | 資料類型: | article | DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.004 |
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