Abstract
This study adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to explore how the prefixation is encoded and contributes to the word formation in Zhangzhou Southern Min, an under-described Sinitic dialect spoken in the South Fujian of mainland China. It addresses five specific aspects, comprising semantic function, morpho-syntactic characteristics, prosodic effect, pragmatic significance, along with their occurrence constraints. The exploration directly fills in the research gap in the study of Zhangzhou, and substantially advance our knowledge of the encoding of prefixation in Southern Chinese dialects. It contributes vital linguistic data to the typology of prefixation as an important phenomenon in world’s natural languages, while enlightening the theoretical discussion on how Sinitic languages should be better defined from the morpho-syntactic perspective.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.alta-1.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Editors:
- Smaranda Muresan, Vivian Chen, Kennington Casey, Vandyke David, Dethlefs Nina, Inoue Koji, Ekstedt Erik, Ultes Stefan
- Venue:
- ALTA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 100–106
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.10
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Yishan Huang. 2023. Encoding Prefixation in Southern Min. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, pages 100–106, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Encoding Prefixation in Southern Min (Huang, ALTA 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ml4al-ingestion/2023.alta-1.10.pdf