Applicative Morphology Neglected Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Functions |
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Editor:
| Pacchiarotti, Sara Zuniga, Fernando |
Series title: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-3-11-077794-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2022 |
Publisher: | De Gruyter, Inc.
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Imprint: | De Gruyter Mouton |
Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $135.00USD $118.99USD $140.00USD $124.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.