Applicative Morphology by Sara Pacchiarotti
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.-
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Essentials of Functional Grammar
Sara Pacchiarotti, Ghent University, Belgium; Fernando Zúñiga, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783111631783 |
| Title | Applicative Morphology |
| Author | Sara Pacchiarotti |
| Series | Trends In Linguistics Studies And Monographs [Tilsm] |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2024-11-04 |
| Number of pages | 483 |
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