Applicative Constructions in the World's Languages.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zúñiga, Fernando.

Contributor:

Creissels, Denis.

Series:

Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] Series

Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] Series ; v.7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Comparative linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1100 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2024.

Summary:

This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).

Contents:

Intro

Purpose and Aim of the Series

Contents

Part I: General chapters

1 Applicative constructions: An introductory overview

2 Questionnaire on applicative constructions

3 Languages examined or referred to in the present book

Individual languages

4 Hul'q'umi'num' Salish applicative constructions

5 Applicatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac

6 Applicatives in Toba/Qom (Guaykuruan)

7 The applicative constructions of Mapudungun

8 Applicative constructions and non-applicative uses of applicative morphology in Tswana (Bantu)

9 Applicativization in Amharic

10 Applicative constructions in Standard Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)

Areal overviews

11 Contact-induced diffusion of applicatives in northwestern Amazonia?

12 Applicatives in Papuan languages

13 Applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages

14 Applicativizing preverbs in selected European languages

Genealogical overviews

15 Applicatives in Northern Uto-Aztecan languages

16 Applicative constructions in Uto-Aztecan languages from Northwestern Mexico

17 Applicative constructions in the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan (Eskimo-Aleut) languages

18 Applicatives across Algonquian

19 Applicative constructions in Mayan languages: An overview with special focus on Chontal

20 Applicative constructions in two Otomanguean families: Otomi and Zapotec

21 The polyfunctional applicative &lt

sup&gt

*&lt

/sup&gt

-ɪd in Bantu languages

22 B-applicatives and I-applicatives in Atlantic languages (Niger-Congo)

23 Nilotic applicatives

24 Applicative constructions in Cushitic

25 Applicative constructions in the Northwest Caucasian languages

26 Applicative constructions in Kartvelian

27 Applicative derivations in Kiranti

28 Applicative constructions in languages of western Indonesia.

Part III: Theoretical/Comparative outlook

29 Understanding applicatives

30 Applicatives cross-linguistically: Features and distribution

31 Applicative and related constructions: Results and perspectives

Language index

Subject index.

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ISBN:

9783110730951

3110730952

OCLC:

1415961806