LING 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Reduplication, Affix, Afroasiatic Languages
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Ling1020 lecture 19: languages of the pacific islands the. Madagascar: language = malagasy (austronesian: malayo-polynesian) Genetically related to hawaiian, maori, malay, indonesian, tagalog. Originated from taiwan: expansion 3,000 5,000 years ago by boat (the expansion covers 60% of the earth"s surface!) Small sound system (i. e. hawaiian only has 8 consonant sounds) Open syllables (cvcvcvcv) i. e. honolulu ho. no. lu. lu: malagasi ma. la. ga. si. Agent the semantic roles of the person or thing that does the action. Patient the semantic roles of the person or thing that has the action done to them. Both the agent & patient can be the subject. Ling1020 lecture 20: semantics & events across languages. S = subject position of intransitive sentence. A = subject position of transitive sentence. O = object position of transitive sentence. Agent initiator/doer of the action in a sentence. Patient one affected by the verb/undergoing some changes. Semantic typology distinguishes between forms & meaning. Adverbials describe something about the verb or the sentence.
