Applicative Morphology: Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] - Sara Pacchiarotti - Books - De Gruyter - 9783110777857 - October 3, 2022
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Applicative Morphology: Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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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.
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Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released October 3, 2022
ISBN13 9783110777857
Publishers De Gruyter
Pages 483
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   821 g
Language English  
Editor Pacchiarotti, Sara
Editor Zuniga, Fernando

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