Experiential-events in Trans-New Guinea languages  

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Burung, Willem

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 23-30.
Topik: Wano; Trans-New Guinea languages; inalienable nouns; experiential-events
Fulltext: 23-30 Kunci Willem Burung.pdf (251.56KB)

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Wano is a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Papua that has experiential-events. Terms referring to Experiential-events include nouns related to the cognitive sphere and physiological sense, i.e.: "[w]ords related to thought, memory, dream and the like fall under the cognition type of experiential events. ...Words related to physical feeling and emotion, like happiness, heaviness or pain, are properties of the physiological domain of experiential events." (Burung, 2017: 113). Wano expresses Experiential-events as inalienably possessed nouns (hereafter: inalienable nouns). Experiential-events function as predicate elements of non-verbal clauses. A non-verbal clause could be an intransitive or a transitive clause, i.e.: the language permits both [CL subject predicate] and [CL subject object predicate] formulae. While the first structure is familiar to typological studies, the second one is an unfamiliar phenomenon. How can a noun be the head of a transitive predicate? My hypotheses follow: 1) Inalieanable nouns may be found in Trans-New Guinea languages, 2) languages having inalienable nouns may have experiential-events, 3) languages having experiential-events may have non-verbal clauses, 4) non-verbal clauses may be intransitive and transitive clauses, where 5) the predicate head is a noun (Burung 2017: §3.4.4; §6.2.2; and §s7.2-5). This paper attempts to prove the above hypotheses with illustrations mostly from Wano.

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