Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages (eBook)

Fernando Zuniga, Denis Creissels (Herausgeber)

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2024
1100 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-073109-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).

Fernando Zúñiga, University of Bern, Switzerland. Denis Creissels, Université Lyon 2, France.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
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• Zusatzinfo: 31 b/w and 10 col. ill., 121 b/w tbl.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Applicative • applikativ • Transitivität • Transitivity • valency • Valenz • Voice
• ISBN-10: 3-11-073109-6 / 3110731096
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-073109-5 / 9783110731095