Applicative Morphology: Neglected Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Functions - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 3111631788 ISBN 13 : 9783111631783

Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sara Pacchiarotti, Ghent University, Belgium; Fernando Zúñiga, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3111631788
• ISBN 13: 9783111631783
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 483
• Éditeur: Pacchiarotti Sara, Zuniga Fernando
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