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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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