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Functional-historical approaches to explanation : in honor of Scott Delancey / edited by Timothy J. Thornes ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language 103
- Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 103
- Typological Studies in Language ; 103
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Explanation (Linguistics).
- Historical linguistics.
- Functionalism (Linguistics).
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 294 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- All branches of Eastern Nilotic have directionals. The Maa (Maasai) away morpheme has a range of functions, including motion away, direction away, distributive action or situation, continuous aspect, a possible plurality function, an applicative-like function, and with some verbs a valence decreasing function. With some other verbs, away is simply lexicalized as part of the stem. The story of away is coherent once the core semantic function is understood, which Tucker and Mpaayei (1955) called 'Motion Away'. However, processes of both lexicalization and grammaticalization have taken place, and the synchronic meaning of this morpheme cannot always and only be understood as indicating (even metaphorical) 'motion away'.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Typological studies
- pt. 2. Contributions to historical linguistics
- pt. 3. TAME and case alignment
- pt. 4. Multi-clause constructions
- pt. 5. Functional motivation and extension.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789027271976
- 9027271976
- OCLC:
- 853239127
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