Manner Affixes and Event Decomposition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900461 |
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| Authors | Victor Bogren Svensson (0009-0004-5528-1572, Lund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 35 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages10030035 |
| OpenAlex | W4407846107 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
This paper investigates how verbal affixes that encode manner information (manner affixes) interact with verbs of different lexical aspect classes and transitivity values in West Greenlandic (Inuit-Yupik-Unangan: Greenland). Manner affixes remain an understudied and poorly understood grammatical category. The data presented and discussed here is primarily based on original fieldwork conducted in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Nuuk (Greenland). The findings show that manner affixes are interspersed among syntactic projections encoding event and argument structure, with a high degree of flexibility in terms of linear and hierarchical ordering, which correlate with differences in scope interpretation. However, this flexibility is limited by the productivity of the affixes involved, and manner affixes cannot intervene between the syntactic projections that encode the event core (the big VP in traditional generative terminology). Furthermore, manner affixes interact with verbs of different lexical aspect classes in ways similar to manner adverbs, highlighting the similarities between the two categories and the similarities between morphological structures (manner affixes) and syntactic structures (manner adverbs
Affix · Causative · Event (particle physics · Generative grammar · Judgement · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Scope (computer science · Terminology · Transitive relation · Verb · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
Inner Aspect
External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations
Structuring Sense
Adverbs and Functional Heads
Introducing Arguments
Verb Meaning and the Lexicon
Structuring Sense Volume 2
Elements of Grammar
Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure
On the identity of roots
Restricting noun incorporation
Verbs and Times
Functional Categories and Syntactic Theory
Deriving the functional hierarchy
Verbal argument structure
Additional facts about noun incorporation (in Inuktitut)
The Language of the Inuit
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