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Applicative Morphology - Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,133
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Applicative Morphology - Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions (Hardcover): Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga

Applicative Morphology - Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions (Hardcover)

Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga

Series: 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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Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Release date: October 2022
First published: 2022
Editors: Sara Pacchiarotti • Fernando Zuniga
Dimensions: 230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-077785-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN: 3-11-077785-1
Barcode: 9783110777857

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