Affiliation:
1. Graduate School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
2. Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan
Abstract
Broadly speaking, binominal and biverbal lexical constructions have been studied independently in different research traditions and frameworks. It is true that the two do not necessarily have overlapping areal distributions, but the fundamental question remains whether Indo-European NN compounds and Transeurasian VV compounds have nothing in common. Against this background, a cross-categorial comparison, not within but across languages, is made of coordinative binominal and biverbal constructions. NN and VV coordinate compounds from English and Japanese are examined in detail using the methodology of contrastive morphology and decompositional lexical semantics. It is shown that dvandva is possible not only in NN but also in VV coordinate compounds and, furthermore, that the dvandva–appositive distinction in NN coordinate compounds recurs in VV coordinate compounds. Cross-categorial formal analyses of the two types, i.e., dvandva and appositive, are presented in the Lexical Semantic Framework.
Funder
Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) KAKENHI
University of Shizuoka with the 2023 Faculty Research Grant
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