Elaborate expressions in Dai Lue
The Dai Lue language, in common with other Southeast Asian languages, has many elaborate expressions: four-syllable units that often have idiomatic and colourful meanings. Using data from a corpus of Dai Lue texts, this paper explains seven strategies that are used for creating elaborate expre...
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2024
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| 在線閱讀: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177628 |
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| 機構: | Nanyang Technological University |
| 語言: | English |
| 總結: | The Dai Lue language, in common with other Southeast Asian
languages, has many elaborate expressions: four-syllable units that often have
idiomatic and colourful meanings. Using data from a corpus of Dai Lue texts, this
paper explains seven strategies that are used for creating elaborate expressions.
These range from those that are flexible and open to creative manipulation, to those
that form fixed lexemes. The most flexible strategy, and the most common, is based
on the large number of coordinate compound words in Dai Lue. Coordinate
compounds are expanded upon in several ways to form a four-syllable expression.
Other strategies involve reduplication and the heaping up of synonyms.
Elaborate expressions that are lexemes are distinguished from those that are not.
Listing of elaborate expressions based on their canonical structure has proved to be
a dead end typologically. An exploration of these seven formation strategies in
Southeast Asian languages holds promise for new insights into their morphology. |
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