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Contrasting the semantics of Indonesian -kan & -i verb pairs: A usage-based, constructional approach

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posted on 2020-02-05, 11:59 authored by Gede Primahadi Wijaya RajegGede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg, I Made RajegI Made Rajeg, I Wayan Arka
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This is a talk presented at the Seminar Nasional Bahasa Ibu (National Seminar on Mother Tongue) held on the 6-7 February 2020 at the Faculty of Arts, Udayana University, Indonesia. (Program book with abstract)

In this talk, we demonstrate the application of one quantitative method in usage-based, Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 2006; Croft, 2001), namely Collostructional Analysis (CollAna) (see Stefanowitsch, 2013, for recent overview).

We expand CollAna to a preliminary investigation of a theoretical issue in Indonesian linguistics concerning semantic (dis)similarity between morphological construction pair (of the same root) suffixed with -kan and -i (i.e. mengenai and mengenakan based on the root kena '(get) hit (by); come into contact with'). Mengenai and mengenakan are used to illustrate the claim of blurry semantic distinction between -kan and -i in common usage; they are both translated as 'subject to' in English by Sneddon et al. (2010, p. 101).

Contrary to Sneddon et al.'s claim, we provide fresh empirical evidence that:
  1. meanings are constructed across different levels of constructions (i.e. morphological [e.g., different suffixation] and syntactic [e.g., collocational patterns and syntactic function])
  2. (alternative) constructions show complex interaction with grammaticalisation process: mengenai is predominantly used as a grammaticalised unit indicating oblique marker like preposition meaning 'concern/in relation to', meanwhile mengenakan expresses lexical meaning of 'to wear (clothing or accessories)' as it predominantly collocates with clothing and accessories-related nouns. Furthermore, evidence for the grammaticalisation of mengenai 'concerning' comes from the absence of paradigmatic opposition for the grammaticalised mengenai in passive di- (i.e. dikenai, which in turn expresses lexical meaning of the syntactic subject is subjected to certain regulations (e.g., tax, law, fee))


    3. References

    Croft, W. (2001). Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford University Press.

    Goldberg, A. E. (2006). Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language. Oxford University Press.

    Sneddon, J. N., Adelaar, A., Djenar, D. N., & Ewing, M. C. (2010). Indonesian reference grammar (2nd ed.). Allen & Unwin.

    Stefanowitsch, A. (2013). Collostructional analysis. In T. Hoffmann & G. Trousdale (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Construction Grammar (pp. 290–306). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195396683.013.0016


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      usage-based linguisticsusage-based semanticscollostructional analysissimple collocates analysisConstruction GrammarQuantitative Corpus LinguisticsIndonesian linguisticsverb-pair contrastSuffix -kanSuffix -iLanguageIndonesian LanguagesLinguistics not elsewhere classifiedLinguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)Computational Linguistics

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