Selecting for and Selecting Despite: A Javanese case study
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Lesure, Cora
Advisor(s)
Albright, Adam
Richards, Norvin
Miyagawa, Shigeru
Date Issued
September 2023
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This is an investigation of the argument structure of Javanese (Austronesian, Indonesia) which focuses on the distribution of four core derivational morphemes: the Actor Voice prefix, and the suffixes -ake, -i, and -an. The project is based on original consultant work conducted with a speaker of the Central dialect of Javanese. The work establishes language internal diagnostics for various aspects of a stem's lexical semantics and lexical category and then utilizes these criteria to analyze a wide variety of morphological derivatives, both verbal and nominal. The resulting analysis is able to predict the distribution of derivational morphemes and the nature of their resulting derivatives to a higher degree than what was previously understood to be possible.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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