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Nominalization in Asian languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives (review)

Nominalization in Asian languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives (review) Tahitian citations are taken from a corpus of natural authentic text, the rest of the language examples in the paper (49 out of 55, or 90 percent) are "generated by the author." This includes all but one of the critical examples that are used to present the case for mea functioning as a stative aspect marker, and so readers should be informed whether or not this is L1 data. The argument would also be more convincing if another possible analysis could be discounted, namely, that the sequences of [mea + lexeme] are not [STATIVE TENSE-ASPECT MARKER + predicate], but regular [head + modifier] topics in a verbless Topic NP ­ Comment NP equational clause. Example (63), the only one provided from natural text, is given a free translation that, in fact, supports this: "The language of Tahitian people is my thing of concern" (334). It is also noted that utterances beginning with mea as the proposed stative marker are more emphatic, and can be intensive or assertive, so that an example glossed originally as "Teva likes to eat turtle" is acknowledged as possibly expressing "Teva is really a big consumer of turtle." If a more extended translation is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Oceanic Linguistics University of Hawai'I Press

Nominalization in Asian languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives (review)

Zeitoun, Elizabeth.
Oceanic Linguistics , Volume 51 (2) – Dec 29, 2012
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Tahitian citations are taken from a corpus of natural authentic text, the rest of the language examples in the paper (49 out of 55, or 90 percent) are "generated by the author." This includes all but one of the critical examples that are used to present the case for mea functioning as a stative aspect marker, and so readers should be informed whether or not this is L1 data. The argument would also be more convincing if another possible analysis could be discounted, namely, that the sequences of [mea + lexeme] are not [STATIVE TENSE-ASPECT MARKER + predicate], but regular [head + modifier] topics in a verbless Topic NP ­ Comment NP equational clause. Example (63), the only one provided from natural text, is given a free translation that, in fact, supports this: "The language of Tahitian people is my thing of concern" (334). It is also noted that utterances beginning with mea as the proposed stative marker are more emphatic, and can be intensive or assertive, so that an example glossed originally as "Teva likes to eat turtle" is acknowledged as possibly expressing "Teva is really a big consumer of turtle." If a more extended translation is

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Published: Dec 29, 2012

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