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L-syntax and phono-symbolism: on the status of ideophones in complex predicates*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2017

Ludovico Franco
Ludovico Franco*
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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Abstract

In this article, the author demonstrates that verbal compound constructions involving an ideophone and a light verb represent a widespread syntactic device in the world's languages. The author provides evidence that phono-symbolic morphemes cannot be treated as ‘bare’ direct objects in such constructions. Ideophones appearing in the light verb-adjacent position form a semantic unit with the verbal predicate, despite the fact that in some languages they can be syntacticized as (bare) nouns and appear in argumental position. Specifically, ideophones in complex predicates are part of the verbal domain with which they ‘blend’ (yielding a single predicate) through the mechanism of conflation, along the lines of Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002), and building on Ramchand (2008).

Résumé

Dans cet article, l'auteur montre que les constructions verbales composées impliquant un idéophone et un verbe léger constituent un dispositif syntaxique répandu dans les langues du monde. L'auteur argumente que dans de telles constructions, les morphèmes phono-symboliques ne peuvent pas être traités comme des objets directs « nus ». Les idéophones qui apparaissent dans la position adjacente à un verbe léger forment une unité sémantique avec le prédicat verbal, bien que dans certaines langues ils puissent être syntactisés comme des noms « nus » et apparaître en position argumentale. Plus précisément, les idéophones dans les prédicats complexes font partie du domaine verbal avec lequel ils se combinent, grâce au mécanisme de la conflation, pour produire un prédicat unique, selon la proposition de Hale et Keyser (1993, 2002) et en s'appuyant sur Ramchand (2008).

Keywords

ideophonescomplex predicatesinternal argumentslight verbsL-syntaxIdéophonesprédicats complexesarguments internesverbes légersL-syntaxe
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 62 , Issue 2: Structuring sensory imagery: Ideophones across languages and cultures/La structuration de l'imagerie sensorielle : les idéophones dans diverses langues et cultures , June 2017 , pp. 243 - 279
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I wish to thank audiences at CLUNL, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and CISCL, Università di Siena, where parts of this article were presented — in particular, Adriana Belletti, Joao Costa, Oana Lungu and Luigi Rizzi. I also wish to thank Antonio Civardi, Rita Manzini, Leonardo Savoia and two anonymous reviewers of CJL for their extremely helpful comments and suggestions. All errors are my own. Special thanks are due to the editors of this special issue, Solveiga Armoskaite and Päivi Koskinen, for their encouragement. I gratefully acknowledge the Portuguese National Science Foundation, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), for supporting this work with the research grant IF/00846/2013.

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