Nouns, verbs and syntactic backsliding in Khmer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20380971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Haiman (Macalester College), Noeurng Ourn (Regions Hospital, St. Paul) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 505-528 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sl.27.3.03hai |
| OpenAlex | W1998948375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
One of the difficulties in parsing Khmer is that morphosyntactic clues about the category membership of words are either lacking or misleading. In particular, words which seem to have the status of deverbal nominalizations because of a derivational infix - Vm(n)- are in fact “still”functioning as verbs. It may be that this phenomenon of “syntactic backsliding” provides novel evidence for the hypothesis that this infix was originally meaningless, and that infixation arose in Khmer via the process of “secretion”
Linguistics · Natural language processing · Nominalization · Noun · Parsing · Phenomenon · Computer Science · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · semigroups and automata theory · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |