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Loan Verb Integration in Michif
Journal of Language Contact Pub Date : 2019-02-27 , DOI: 10.1163/19552629-01201002
Anton Antonov 1
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This paper looks at the different ways French (and English) loan verbs are being integrated in Michif, a mixed language (the noun system is French, the verbal one is Cree) based upon two dictionaries of the language. The detailed study of the available data has shown that loan verbs are almost exclusively assigned to the VAI class, i.e. a class of verbs whose single core argument is animate. This seems natural enough given that the overwhelming majority of them do have an animate core participant in the donor language as well. Still, quite a few of them can be transitive. This is accounted for by claiming that VAI is the most 'neutral' inflectional class of Cree as far as morphology and argument structure are concerned as verbs in this class can be syntactically both intransitive and transitive. Finally, all of the loan verbs examined have Cree equivalents and so the claim that they were borrowed because of the lack of a corresponding Cree verb in the language is difficult to accept at face value.

中文翻译:

Michif 中的贷款动词整合

本文着眼于法语(和英语)借词动词在 Michif 中的不同方式,Michif 是一种基于两种语言词典的混合语言(名词系统是法语,动词系统是克里语)。对现有数据的详细研究表明,借用动词几乎完全属于 VAI 类,即单一核心参数是有生命的动词类。这似乎很自然,因为他们中的绝大多数人也有一个使用捐赠者语言的有生命力的核心参与者。尽管如此,其中不少可以是可传递的。这是通过声称 VAI 是 Cree 中最“中性”的屈折类来解释的,就形态和参数结构而言,因为此类中的动词在句法上既可以是不及物的,也可以是及物的。最后,
更新日期:2019-02-27
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