An Interface of Syntactic and Semantic OT Accounts of Hakka KAI in [ADJP/NP KAI N] Constructions1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21398752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yu‐Ching Tseng (0000-0001-7103-7781, English Department Tamkang University 151, Yingzhuan Rd. Tamsui Dist. New Taipei City 25137 Taiwan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 553-583 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/stul.12134 |
| OpenAlex | W3007782572 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper investigates the phenomenon related to the morpheme KAI in the Hakka noun phrases. It investigates the presence or absence of KAI in the constructions where the head noun is modified by either a noun phrase or an adjectival phrase. KAI does not occur if the modifying phrase and the noun form a lexical compound. In other cases, the presence of KAI is by and large optional. To theoretically account for the phenomenon, this paper argues that the syntactic rules of Hakka allowed both of the alternative constructions with or without KAI ; however, some semantic criteria may interfere in the selection of a grammatical construction as the preferable one. An interface of syntactic and semantic OT can account for this situation. When OT syntax selects multiple constructions as the optimal outputs, OT semantics goes one step further by pairing the output with a preferable interpretation. The interpretational constraints involved in the analysis are based on the principle of iconicity and the markedness relation between the contrastive emphatic and noncontrastive basic meaning
Determiner phrase · Head (geology) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Markedness · Meaning (existential) · Morpheme · Natural language processing · Noun · Noun phrase · Phenomenon · Phrase · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Semantic interpretation · Semantics (computer science) · Syntax · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |