Applicative Morphology (eBook)

Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions

Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
483 Seiten
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-077794-9 (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
• Sprache: englisch
• ISBN-10: 3-11-077794-0 / 3110777940
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-077794-9 / 9783110777949