Applicative Morphology (eBook)

Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions

Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga (Herausgeber)

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2022
483 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-077802-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Sara Pacchiarotti, Ghent University, Belgium; Fernando Zu?n?iga, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Reihe/Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Zusatzinfo: 6 b/w ill., 24 b/w tbl., 1 b/w maps
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: language change • Morphologie • Pragmatik • Semantic and Pragmatic Functions • Semantik • Spatial Morphology • Valence-Neutral Applicative Morphology
• ISBN-10: 3-11-077802-5 / 3110778025
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-077802-1 / 9783110778021