A comparative study of Malay and English ‘say’ verbs and ‘as’ alternation

• Main Author: Siti Nur Atiqah Abdul Had
• Other Authors: Francis Bond
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73495
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Relations between verb classes and syntactic alternations have been studied in many languages, but not Malay. This study discusses whether Malay ‘say’ verbs function like English ‘say’ verbs when undergoing the ‘as’ alternation. 111 Malay speakers aged between 18 and 25 performed two online tasks. I...