A corpus-based analysis to restructure the position of the core meaning of setia

• Main Authors: Isam, Hishamudin, Mat Awal, Norsimah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa & Linguistik FSSK UKM 2011
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/3137/1/pp143_158.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/3137/; http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/GEMA%20vol%2011%20(1)%202011/pp143_158.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Speakers’ creativity in manipulating lexical usage has resulted in the emergence of new meanings and these meanings have the potential to be recorded in dictionaries. This emergence, therefore, calls for the restructuring of the new meanings to determine the position of the existing meaning vis-ti-v...