Pacchiarotti, Sara; Zúñiga, Fernando (eds.) (2022). Applicative Morphology: Neglected Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Functions. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs: Vol. 373. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)This book is about recurrent functions of applicative morphology not included in typologically-oriented definitions. Based on substantial cross-linguistic evidence, it challenges received wisdom on applicatives in several ways. First, in many of the surveyed languages, applicatives are the sole means to introduce a non-Actor semantic role into a clause. When there is an alternative way of expression, the applicative counterpart often has no valence-increasing effect on the targeted root. Second, applicative morphology can introduce constituents which are not syntactic objects and/or co-occur with obliques. Third, functions such as conveying aspectual nuances to the predicate (intensity, repetition, habituality) or its arguments (partitive P, highly individuated P), narrow-focusing constituents, and functioning as category-changing devices are attested in geographically distant and genetically unrelated languages. Further, this volume reveals that spatial-related morphology is prone to developing applicative functions in disparate languages and phyla. Finally, several contributions discuss the diachrony of applicative constructions and their (non-syntactic) attested functions, including a case of applicatives-in-the-making.
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Book (Edited Volume) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zúñiga, Fernando |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 410 Linguistics |
ISSN: |
1861-4302 |
ISBN: |
9783110777857 |
Series: |
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs |
Publisher: |
De Gruyter Mouton |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Fernando Zúñiga |
Date Deposited: |
20 Sep 2022 10:17 |
Last Modified: |
16 Feb 2023 15:24 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/173063 |
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