Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages / / ed. by Fernando Zuniga, Denis Creissels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Amberber, Mengistu,; Arka, I. Wayan,; Arkadiev, Peter,; Austin, Peter K.,; Bagirokova, Irina,; Beck, David,; Censabella, Marisa,; Creissels, Denis,; Estrada-Fernández, Zarina,; Foley, William A.,; Gerdts, Donna B.,; Gijn, Rik van,; Hegedűs, Veronika,; Hernández-Green, Néstor,; Jacques, Guillaume,; Lahaussois, Aimée,; Lander, Yury,; López Nicolás, Oscar,; Macaulay, Monica,; McDonnell, Bradley,; Mithun, Marianne,; Montgomery-Anderson, Brad,; Moroz, George,; Musgrave, Simon,; Pacchiarotti, Sara,; Payne, Doris L.,; Polinsky, Maria,; Thompson Lockwood, Hunter,; Thornes, Tim,; Truong, Christina L.,; Tuite, Kevin,; Vanhove, Martine,; Voisin, Sylvie,; Wijaya Rajeg, Gede Primahadi,; Zúñiga, Fernando,; Álvarez González, Albert,
• HerausgeberIn: Creissels, Denis,; Zuniga, Fernando,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 1090 p.)

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).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Part II: Case studies -- 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 *-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