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This study examines seven deverbal nominalizing suffixes through theoretical framework and previous research. They include the morphological aspects, productivity of suffixes, base-driven approach and phonological neutral and nonneutral suffixes. Learners participated in an instrument to account for their competence of verb-noun derivation. The participants presented knowledge of relational, syntactic and relatively distributional morphology. Also, some suffixes are more productive than others and that was shown through the level of accuracy of these suffixes. The suffixes -ing, -er, and (at)-ion are of high accuracy and thus productive. Whereas the suffixes -ment, -ent/-ant, -ence/-ance and -al are less accurate and less productive. The underlying reason behind the productivity and non-productivity of these suffixes is because of the phonological transparency factors. Suffixes that do not cause internal phonological changes in the base presented high accuracy and easily learned, while suffixes that require internal phonological changes posed challenges to learners. The -ment suffix is neutral, no internal change required, however; its accuracy went down in this study.

Toute langue parlée dans le monde évolue selon des mécanismes internes et externes qui lui sont propres. Notre travail s’intéresse aux facteurs de ces mécanismes, en particulier aux effets du contact des langues entre elles. Des chercheurs ont mis en évidence les effets de ces interactions et ont montré que toutes sortes d’éléments linguistiques pouvaient être transférées d’une langue à une autre. La famille des langues altaïques est représentée en Chine par des langues des trois principales branches (toungouso-mandchoue, mongole, turque), qui ont été en contact à divers degrés avec le chinois. Dans ce travail, nous étudierons le khortchin (qorcin, ch. keerqin), dialecte mongol oriental qui a été en contact avec le chinois de façon importante dans le temps et l’espace. Des linguistes de Mongolie-Intérieure ont souligné des phénomènes de « mixité linguistique » dans le khortchin, révélant un nombre considérable de mots d'emprunt chinois. Ce travail tente de montrer, à travers une description phonologique, morphologique et syntaxique, les caractéristiques linguistiques propres à ce dialecte. Pour comprendre les mécanismes à l’œuvre et identifier les facteurs internes et/ou externes, cette description est étayée par une comparaison entre le khortchin et d’autres dialectes mongols, notamment l’oïrate. Cette recherche s’est inscrite dans la problématique du projet ANR dirigé par M. R. Djamouri «Contacts de langues et changements linguistiques : le cas du chinois et des langues altaïques », et celui dirigé par Mme Dan Xu, « Do languages and genes correlate? A case study in Northwestern China ». / Any language in the world evolves according to internal and external mechanisms which are specific to each language. Our work focuses on these factors, and particularly on the effects of contact between different languages. Researchers have highlighted these linguistic interactions and showed that all kinds of linguistic elements can be transferred from one language to another. The Altaic language family in China includes languages of the three main branches (Tungus-Manchu, Mongolian, and Turk), which have been more or less in contact with Chinese. In this work, we study Khorchin (qorcin, ch. keerqin), an Eastern Mongolian dialect that has been in contact with Chinese significantly in time and space. Linguists from Inner Mongolia have noted the phenomena of " language mixing" in Khorchin, revealing a considerable amount of loan words from Chinese. This work attempts to show, through a phonological, morphological and syntactic description, some linguistic phenomena that are specific to this dialect. To understand the mechanisms involved and identify internal and / or external factors, this description relies on a comparison between the Khorchin and other Mongolian dialects, and in particular Oirat. This research is related to the NRA projects led by R. Djamouri "Language contact and language change: the case of Chinese and Altaic languages", and by Ms. Dan Xu, "Do languages and genes correlate? - A case study in Northwestern China ".

Orientador: Clotilde de Almeida Azevedo Murakawa / Banca: Ana Rosa Gomes Cabello / Banca: Braz José Coelho / Banca: Catarina Vaz Rodrigues / Banca: Marymarcia Guedes / Resumo: Pretendeu-se, neste trabalho, analisar a evolução dos significados de alguns sufixos latinos (eruditos) utilizados, em Português arcaico, que apresentam uma contraparte popular. Inicialmente, foram revistos a História, a origem, os períodos e sub-períodos do Português, assim como os textos principais de sua fase arcaica. Em relação aos sufixos, objeto específico deste trabalho, faz-se uma revisão geral, em ordem cronológica ascendente, da literatura existente a esse respeito, tomando-se por base a opinião de alguns eminentes filólogos e gramáticos da História da Língua (Carolina Michäelis de Vasconcelos (1946), José Joaquim Nunes (1989), Manuel de Said Ali (1931 e 1964), Joseph Hüber (1986 [1933]), Theodoro Maurer Jr. (1951), José Leite de Vasconcelos (1959), Sousa da Silveira (1960)), gramáticos normativos (Fernão de Oliveira (1975 [1536]), Júlio Ribeiro (1913 [1881]), João Ribeiro (1926 [1901]), Gladstone Chaves de Melo (1978), Cunha e Cintra (1985), Evanildo Bechara (1999) e lingüistas - estruturalistas / gerativistas - (Joaquim Mattoso Camara Jr. (1979 e 1980), Margarida Basílio (1980 e 2004), Cacilda de Oliveira Camargo (1986), Antônio José Sandmann (1991 e 1992), Valter Khedi (2005), Graça Maria de Oliveira e Silva Rio-Torto (1993 e 2006), Luiz Carlos de Assis Rocha (1998), Alina Villalva (2000), Margarita Correia (2004), Margarita Correia & Lucia San Payo de Lemos (2005) e Soledad Varela Ortega (2005)). A partir de um corpus elaborado por nós, baseado em 20 obras, foram selecionados os seguintes pares de sufixos: -ato x - ado; -ático X -adego; -bil x -vel;-ense x -ês; -ario x -eiro;-(t)orio ~ -(s)orio x -(d)oiro e -(t)ura ~ -(s)ura ~ -(d)ura x -ura. Há sufixos com grande, média e baixa produtividades. Muitos deles vão ganhando, ao longo dos séculos, novos significados; outros, entretanto, mantém aqueles já presentes em Latim. / Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to analyze the development of the meaning of some erudite latin suffixes used in Archaic Portuguese which have a popular counterpart. Firstly, the history, the origin, the periods and subperiods of Brazilian Portuguese have been revised, as well as the main texts of its archaic period. A general review of the literature on suffixes, the specific object of this work, has been done in ascendant chronological order taking as its basis the opinion of some most eminent philologists and grammarians of the History of Language such as (Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos (1946), José Joaquim Nunes (1989), Manuel de Said Ali (1931 and 1964), Joseph Hüber (1986 [1933]), Theodoro Maurer Jr. (1951), José Leite de Vasconcelos (1959), Sousa da Silveira (1960)); normative grammarians such as (Fernão de Oliveira (1975 [1536]), Júlio Ribeiro (1913 [1881]), João Ribeiro (1926 [1901]), Gladstone Chaves de Melo (1978), Cunha & Cintra (1985), Evanildo Bechara (1999); and structuralist/gerativist linguists such as (Joaquim Mattoso Camara Jr. (1979 and 1980), Margarida Basílio (1980 and 2004), Cacilda de Oliveira Camargo (1986), Antônio José Sandmann (1991 and 1992), Valter Khedi (2005), Graça Maria de Oliveira e Silva Rio-Torto (1993 and 2006), Luiz Carlos de Assis Rocha (1998), Alina Villalva (2000), Margarita Correia (2004), Margarita Correia & Lucia San Payo de Lemos (2005) and Soledad Varela Ortega (2005). The following suffix pairs which form the corpus have been selected based on 20 books: -ato x - ado; -ático X -adego; -bil x -vel;-ense x -ês; -ario x -eiro;-(t)orio ~ -(s)orio x -(d)oiro e -(t)ura ~ -(s)ura ~ -(d)ura x -ura. There are suffixes of high, medium and low productivity. Many of them acquire new meanings through the centuries; others, however, maintain the meanings used in Latin. / Résumé: Dans ce travail, on a eu le dessein d' analyser l' évolution des signifiés de quelques suffixes latins (érudits) utilisés en portugais archaïque et qui présentent une contrepartie populaire. D'abord, on a repassé l'Histoire, l'origine, les périodes et les sous-périodes de la Langue Portugaise, ainsi que les textes principaux de la phase archaïque du Portugais. À propos des suffixes - objet spécifique de ce travail - on a fait une révision générale de la littérature existante à ce sujet, suivant l'ordre chronologique ascendante et tout en prenant comme point de départ l'avis de quelques philologues et grammairiens éminents de L'Histoire de la Langue (Carolina Michäelis de Vasconcelos (1946), José Joaquim Nunes (1989), Manuel de Said Ali (1931 e 1964), Joseph Hüber (1986 [1933]), Theodoro Maurer Jr. (1951), José Leite de Vasconcelos (1959), Sousa da Silveira (1960)), des grammariens normatifs (Fernão de Oliveira (1975 [1536]), Júlio Ribeiro (1913 [1881]), João Ribeiro (1926 [1901]), Gladstone Chaves de Melo (1978), Cunha e Cintra (1985), Evanildo Bechara (1999) et des linguistes - structuralistes / générativistes - (Joaquim Mattoso Camara Jr. (1979 et 1980), Margarida Basílio (1980 et 2004), Cacilda de Oliveira Camargo (1986), Antônio José Sandmann (1991 et 1992), Valter Khedi (2005), Graça Maria de Oliveira et Silva Rio-Torto (1993 et 2006), Luiz Carlos de Assis Rocha (1998), Alina Villalva (2000), Margarita Correia (2004), Margarita Correia & Lucia San Payo de Lemos (2005) et Soledad Varela Ortega (2005)). À partir d' un corpus de textes extraits de 20 oeuvres, organisé par nous, les paires de suffixes suivantes ont été sélectionnées: -ato x -ado; -ático X - adego; -bil x -vel;-ense x -ês; -ario x -eiro;-(t)orio ~ -(s)orio x -(d)oiro e - (t)ura ~ -(s)ura ~ -(d)ura x -ura. Il y a des suffixes qui... (Résumé complet accès électronique ci-dessous) / Doutor

The main aim of this thesis is to gain a deep understanding of the meanings of Korean conjunctive verbal suffixes from a pragmatic viewpoint, using real, not constructed data. In order to attain the purpose, this thesis conducts an in-depth analysis of the nature of the meanings, and the use, of six Korean conjunctive verbal suffixes: -ko, -nuntey, -nikka, -se, -ciman, and -to. The term the use refers to the truth-functionality of suffixes, i.e., whether they conjoin or disjoin the two propositions, which are recovered from two segments, truth-functionally. The data are obtained from 360 minutes of audio-taped Korean natural conversations. It adopts as its reasoning tool four major pragmatic theories - Gricean theory, neo-Gricean theory, Relevance Theory, and Default Semantics. However, it does not use the data to compare the four theories. The thesis emphasises how to elucidate the meanings of Korean conjunctive verbal suffixes that modern pragmatic theories cannot neatly explain. In Chapter 1 previous approaches on the six suffixes are analysed. It is pointed out that while these studies correctly equate the meanings of a given suffix with propositional relations that obtain between the two segments (linked by the suffix), they fail to see the importance of the use of the suffix. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the four pragmatic theories. The focus is on strengths and weaknesses of the four theories. In Chapter 3, we introduce propositional relations and the notions of encoding and inferred. What is meant by conjoining and disjoining truth-conditionally is also explained. Chapter 4 specifies the data. In Chapter 5, propositional relations between two propositions which are recovered from two conjoined segments are characterised. Chapter 6 applies the scope test to meanings of the six suffixes and distinguishes encoded and inferred meanings. It discusses encoded meanings of the six suffixes, which conjoin the two propositions truth-functionally, and discusses inferred meanings of only four of the six suffixes, which disjoin the two propositions truthfunctionally. In Chapter 7, we discuss the nature of the meanings of the six suffixes from two theoretical angles, Relevance Theory and Default Semantics, and in particular we argue against a unitary procedure hypothesis. Chapter 8 concludes the thesis and also includes suggestions for future studies.

This thesis explains why the prefix maha- in Malagasy (a Western Austronesian language) can have either an abilitive or causative meaning. It is not the case that there is a causative maha- prefix and an abilitive maha- prefix. There is, in fact, only one prefix which is both causative and abilitive. The apparent difference in meaning arises because of a difference in the emphasis placed on what I shall suggest are the two components of this prefix: stativity and causation. Whether maha- receives an abilitive or a causative reading depends on whether it attaches to what I term an "eventive" root or a "non-eventive" root. In the former case, it receives an abilitive reading, in the latter case, a causative reading.

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Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1969. / Bibliography: leaves [199]-207. / viii, 207 l

The main aim of this thesis is to gain a deep understanding of the meanings of Korean conjunctive verbal suffixes from a pragmatic viewpoint, using real, not constructed data. In order to attain the purpose, this thesis conducts an in-depth analysis of the nature of the meanings, and the use, of six Korean conjunctive verbal suffixes: -ko, -nuntey, -nikka, -se, -ciman, and -to. The term the use refers to the truth-functionality of suffixes, i.e., whether they conjoin or disjoin the two propositions, which are recovered from two segments, truth-functionally. The data are obtained from 360 minutes of audio-taped Korean natural conversations. It adopts as its reasoning tool four major pragmatic theories - Gricean theory, neo-Gricean theory, Relevance Theory, and Default Semantics. However, it does not use the data to compare the four theories. The thesis emphasises how to elucidate the meanings of Korean conjunctive verbal suffixes that modern pragmatic theories cannot neatly explain. In Chapter 1 previous approaches on the six suffixes are analysed. It is pointed out that while these studies correctly equate the meanings of a given suffix with propositional relations that obtain between the two segments (linked by the suffix), they fail to see the importance of the use of the suffix. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the four pragmatic theories. The focus is on strengths and weaknesses of the four theories. In Chapter 3, we introduce propositional relations and the notions of encoding and inferred. What is meant by conjoining and disjoining truth-conditionally is also explained. Chapter 4 specifies the data. In Chapter 5, propositional relations between two propositions which are recovered from two conjoined segments are characterised. Chapter 6 applies the scope test to meanings of the six suffixes and distinguishes encoded and inferred meanings. It discusses encoded meanings of the six suffixes, which conjoin the two propositions truth-functionally, and discusses inferred meanings of only four of the six suffixes, which disjoin the two propositions truthfunctionally. In Chapter 7, we discuss the nature of the meanings of the six suffixes from two theoretical angles, Relevance Theory and Default Semantics, and in particular we argue against a unitary procedure hypothesis. Chapter 8 concludes the thesis and also includes suggestions for future studies.

O objetivo deste trabalho é contribuir com os estudos lexicográficos no que diz respeito à organização dos verbetes dos sufixos -ada, -aria e -agem, os quais formam substantivos que comportam os traços semânticos [+humano], [+ação ou resultado da ação de N] (N=nome) e [+coleção] (ou [+coletivo]). Para tanto, realizou-se um estudo dos respectivos verbetes afixais em dois dicionários da língua portuguesa: o Novo Dicionário Eletrônico Aurélio e o Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa. A partir da análise de um corpus composto por 489 ocorrências de palavras que comportam os traços acima descritos, formadas com -ada, -aria e -agem, partiu-se para a verificação das propriedades semânticas atribuídas às bases dessas palavras. A seguir essas propriedades foram comparadas. Com a verificação das acepções atribuídas pelos dicionaristas às bases, aos derivados e aos sufixos, nos dois dicionários, realizou-se uma análise quantitativa e qualitativa das palavras formadas com esses sufixos. Os resultados da análise indicam que uma descrição lexicográfica ótima desses sufixos deverá contemplar os seguintes aspectos: os sentidos ação ou resultado da ação de N, coleção e pejorativo, atualizados por -ada, -aria e -agem, bem como o sentido qualidade de N, atualizado por -aria e -agem; a categoria das palavras derivadas e a categoria das bases às quais esses sufixos se adjungem; a propensão do sufixo -ada à construção de nomes sobre bases referentes à etnia; e a tendência dos três sufixos, em especial -ada, para a construção de nomes cujas bases referem animais, mas que, por extensão de sentido, adquirem o traço [+humano]. / This paper aims at contributing to lexicographic studies concerning the organization of the entries of suffixes -ada, -aria and -agem, which form nouns with the following semantic features: [+human], [+action or result of N’s action] (N = noun) and [+collective]. Thus, a study of entries of the respective affixes was carried out in two dictionaries: the New Online Aurélio Dictionary (Novo Dicionário Eletrônico Aurélio) and the Online Houaiss Portuguese Dictionary (Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa). From the analysis of a corpus of 489 occurrences of words with the above mentioned features, formed by -ada, -aria and -agem, the semantic properties given to these word bases was checked. Then, these properties were compared. After checking the meanings given to these word bases by the dictionary writers, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the words formed by the above mentioned suffixes was carried out. The results of this analysis show that a better lexicographic description of these suffixes should consider the following aspects: action or result of N’s action, collective and derogatory meaning, updated by -ada, -aria and -agem, as well as quality of N, updated by -aria and -agem; the category of derived words and the category of bases which these suffixes combine with; the proneness of the suffix -ada to form nouns from bases related to ethnic group; and the tendency of the three suffixes, in special -ada, to form nouns whose bases refer to animals but, due to the extension of meaning, acquire the feature [+human].