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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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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Grammar, syntax & morphology

• Full title: Applicative Morphology
• Subtitle: Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions
• Author: Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 477
• EAN: 9783111631783
• ID: 46583415
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Weight: 863 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 155 mm
• Published: 2024

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