Pacchiarotti / Zuniga Applicative Morphology

Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-077802-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 373, 483 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and Researchers interested in Linguistic Typology, Morph

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pacchiarotti, Sara

Zuniga, Fernando

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

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

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