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In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay

The paper attempts to describe the relation of apposition in Malay. Whilst other relations such as coordination, modification and relative clauses have been widely discussed in the grammatical description of Malay, apposition has been largely left out. The isolation, as a guess, may be due to the f...

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Main Author: Haroon, Harshita Aini
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2004
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PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
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spelling my.uum.repo.1982016-12-07T01:35:49Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/198/ In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay Haroon, Harshita Aini PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania The paper attempts to describe the relation of apposition in Malay. Whilst other relations such as coordination, modification and relative clauses have been widely discussed in the grammatical description of Malay, apposition has been largely left out. The isolation, as a guess, may be due to the fact that some appositional constructions may lie on boundary with other well-established relations, thus lessening the need for its explicit mention. We show in this paper the boundaries of apposition with these relations. Then, using data extracted from a 450,000 word corpus, we put forward the realizations of apposition in the Malay language from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic perspectives in order to close the structural gap currently existing in Malay grammatical relations. We end the paper by briefly mentioning some possible implications of this 'discovery'. Universiti Utara Malaysia 2004 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/198/1/Harshita_Aini_Haroon.pdf Haroon, Harshita Aini (2004) In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay. International Journal of Management Studies (IJMS), 1 (1). pp. 111-130. ISSN 2180-2467 http://mjli.uum.edu.my
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Haroon, Harshita Aini
In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay
description The paper attempts to describe the relation of apposition in Malay. Whilst other relations such as coordination, modification and relative clauses have been widely discussed in the grammatical description of Malay, apposition has been largely left out. The isolation, as a guess, may be due to the fact that some appositional constructions may lie on boundary with other well-established relations, thus lessening the need for its explicit mention. We show in this paper the boundaries of apposition with these relations. Then, using data extracted from a 450,000 word corpus, we put forward the realizations of apposition in the Malay language from syntactic, semantic and pragmatic perspectives in order to close the structural gap currently existing in Malay grammatical relations. We end the paper by briefly mentioning some possible implications of this 'discovery'.
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title In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay
title_short In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay
title_full In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay
title_fullStr In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay
title_full_unstemmed In search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in Malay
title_sort in search of the 'lost' grammatical description: the case of apposition in malay
publisher Universiti Utara Malaysia
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url http://repo.uum.edu.my/198/1/Harshita_Aini_Haroon.pdf
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