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Article: Every affix is an archipelago: Tagalog Ka- as a Semantic Partial.
- Article from:
- Southwest Journal of Linguistics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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This paper presents a cognitive linguistic analysis of CONSTRUCTIONAL POLYSEMY manifested by Tagalog ka- and its variants. We propose that ka- is a METONYMIC OPERATOR that functions to evoke and mark a SEMANTIC PARTIAL, which we define as the conventionalized profiling of an element that is selected of abstracted from the conceptual base evoked by a linguistic root of stem; subsumed by the partial schema are the categories of INDIVIDUAT1ON and ABSTRACT QUAL1TY. When the cognitive linguistic analysis of ka- as a semantic partial is applied to more complex constructions, it reveals motivations that are missed by other approaches. Our findings are compared to Panther and ...