@book{8768287,
  abstract     = {{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.}},
  editor       = {{Pacchiarotti, Sara and Zuniga, Fernando}},
  isbn         = {{9783110777857}},
  issn         = {{1861-4302}},
  keywords     = {{Valence-Neutral Applicative Morphology,Semantic and Pragmatic Functions,Language Change,Spatial Morphology}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{483}},
  publisher    = {{De Gruyter Mouton}},
  title        = {{Applicative morphology : neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777949}},
  volume       = {{373}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}

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