Applicative morphology : neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions
Sara Pacchiarotti
(UGent)
and Fernando Zuniga
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- Sara Pacchiarotti (UGent) and Fernando Zuniga
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- 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.
- Keywords
- Valence-Neutral Applicative Morphology, Semantic and Pragmatic Functions, Language Change, Spatial Morphology
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8768287
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- Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Fernando Zuniga, editors. Applicative Morphology : Neglected Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Functions. Vol. 373, De Gruyter Mouton, 2022, doi:10.1515/9783110777949.
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- Pacchiarotti, S., & Zuniga, F. (Eds.). (2022). Applicative morphology : neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777949
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- Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Fernando Zuniga, eds. 2022. “Applicative Morphology : Neglected Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Functions.” Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110777949.
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- Pacchiarotti, Sara, and Fernando Zuniga, eds. 2022. “Applicative Morphology : Neglected Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Functions.” Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110777949.
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- 1.Pacchiarotti S, Zuniga F, editors. Applicative morphology : neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions. Vol. 373. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton; 2022.
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- [1]S. Pacchiarotti and F. Zuniga, Eds., “Applicative morphology : neglected syntactic and non-syntactic functions,” vol. 373. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin, 2022.
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