Benefaction proper and surrogation

Zúñiga, Fernando (2014). Benefaction proper and surrogation. Studies in Language, 38(3), pp. 543-565. John Benjamins 10.1075/sl.38.3.05zun

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The semantic role of beneficiary is usually conceptualized in very general terms, typically without an intensive definition of what can constitute a benefit in the particular construction under study. Among those accounts that have proposed to discuss benefaction as related to the notion(s) of surrogation, substituting, and/or deputing, Kittilä (2005) proposes a distinction between recipients, beneficiaries, and recipient-beneficiaries based on the binary features [reception] and [substitutive benefaction]; the recipient includes only reception (and the beneficiary only substitutive benefaction), whereas both features are relevant with recipient-beneficiaries.

This paper proposes an alternative account (i) by defining benefaction proper in terms of a prototype related to possession (and thereby to reception) and a periphery, and (ii) by defining surrogation as a separate notion that can, but need not, coalesce with benefaction proper. Thus, the beneficiaries’ condition improves because they are relieved from having to carry out a given action themselves.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Zúñiga, Fernando
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages
ISSN:	0378-4177
Publisher:	John Benjamins
Submitter:	Fernando Zúñiga
Date Deposited:	11 Nov 2014 07:28
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:37
Publisher DOI:	10.1075/sl.38.3.05zun
Uncontrolled Keywords:	benefactives, beneficiary, substitutive beneficiary, deputative beneficiary, surrogation
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/59715