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- Title
Dozing eyes and drunken faces: Nominalized psycho-collocations in Daakaka (Vanuatu).
- Authors
von Prince, Kilu
- Abstract
Like many languages of the world, the Oceanic language Daakaka (Vanuatu) uses idiomatic combinations of body-part terms and verbs to express emotions, medical conditions and related concepts. However, languages differ in how they express the same concepts nominally. I will contrast the nominalization strategy found in Daakaka with other languages and discuss the differences. I will argue that the nominalization strategy in Daakaka is less transparent than its alternatives but that it allows for the formation of a paradigm that also includes meteorological expressions. This phenomenon highlights the need to look beyond individual lexemes when comparing lexical classes and derivational processes cross-linguistically.
- Subjects
VANUATU; OCEANIC languages; IDIOMS; LEXICON; LEXICOLOGY
- Publication
Studies in Language, 2017, Vol 41, Issue 2, p502
- ISSN
0378-4177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/sl.41.2.08von