On the syntactic category of Akan compounds: A product-oriented perspective

Clement Kwamina Insaidoo Appah
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In accounting for the properties of morphological constructions, one may adopt a source-oriented view where every property of the whole emanates from the parts or a product-oriented view where the whole may have properties that do not come from the parts. Such properties are called holistic constructional properties. Studies on Akan compounds have been invariably source-oriented, assuming that every property in a compound, including the syntactic category, has to come from its constituents. I show that compounding in Akan is blind to the syntactic category of the constituents. Thus, notwithstanding the syntactic category of the constituents the Akan compound is invariably nominal. This paper, therefore, provides evidence of holistic properties of morphological constructions in the form of the syntactic category of Akan compounds. I also present a Construction Morphology modelling of the syntactic category of the Akan compound as a holistic constructional property which is inherited from a constructional meta-schema that is pre-specified to be nominal. Finally, I posit and exemplify four schemas which inherit the category N from the meta-schema but differ in terms of the presence and position of a head constituent.
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论阿坎语复合词的句法范畴:以产品为导向的视角
在解释形态结构的属性时,人们可以采用一种面向源的观点,即整体的每一个属性都来自部分,或者采用一种面向产品的观点,即整体可能具有不来自部分的属性。这样的属性被称为整体构造属性。对Akan化合物的研究总是以来源为导向,假设化合物的每一个属性,包括句法范畴,都必须来自它的成分。我证明了Akan的复合是对成分的句法范畴视而不见的。因此,尽管成分的句法范畴,Akan化合物总是名义的。因此,本文以阿坎语复合词的句法范畴的形式提供了形态结构整体特性的证据。我还提出了Akan复合词的句法范畴的结构形态学模型,作为一个整体的结构属性,它继承自一个预先指定为名义的结构元图式。最后,我假设并举例说明了四种模式,它们从元模式继承类别N,但在头部成分的存在和位置方面有所不同。
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