A Study on Lexical Semantics and Teaching of Washing and Hitting Verbs in Truku

• Main Authors: Chin, Pei-Yi, 金佩儀
• Other Authors: Yeh, Mei-Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yfcf89

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 臺灣語言研究與教學研究所 === 107 === This study aims to investigate the words expressing the ‘washing’ and ‘hitting’ concepts in Truku language through the analysis of the semantics qualia and argument structure. Futhermore, following the results of this study, we provide two teaching designs for the reference of Truku teachers. Truku makes use of three verbs to expressed the ‘washing’ action – mahu ‘washing clothes’, trima ‘washing body part’, and sminaw ‘washing appliance’. We generalize the core semantics and semantics qualia of these three words, and found that lexical semantics will affect the choice of the following noun. The words mahu ‘washing clothes’ is the Agent Focus form the root bahu, which includes the meaning of ‘beating’ and ‘washing clothes’. Following this language facts, we discuss the semantic correlation between these two meanings. Besides, the other words with the meaning ‘hitting’ in terms of their argument structure. In addition to the patient argument, sipaq, sru, and sbut can take an instrumental argument. To express ‘the strength of hitting’, we have to use bahu, beebu, tabuk in collocation with one of the verbs msru, ptuluk, forming a VV construction. If we want to convey ‘the effect of hitting’, a VV construction formed with something like dmahung ‘bruise (with bloodshot) ’, sknbrayuk ‘bruise’ collocated with the verb msru ‘hit’ is used. In the end, we apply the results of this study, incorporating traditional culture and living experience of Truku to design two teaching plans for the teaching of ‘washing’ and ‘hitting’ verbs in Truku.