Applicative Morphology

Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions

Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VI, 477 Seiten

2024
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-163178-3 (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 Zúñiga, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 373
Zusatzinfo	b/w maps
Verlagsort	Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	864 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	language change • Morphologie • Pragmatik • Semantic and Pragmatic Functions • Semantik • Spatial Morphology • Valence-Neutral Applicative Morphology
ISBN-10	3-11-163178-8 / 3111631788
ISBN-13	978-3-11-163178-3 / 9783111631783
Zustand	Neuware