Applicative Morphology : : Neglected Syntactic and Non-syntactic Functions / / ed. by Sara Pacchiarotti, Fernando Zuniga.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Evans, Bethwyn,; Gibson, Hannah,; Guerrero, Lilián,; Gunnink, Hilde,; Ibáñez Cerda, Sergio,; Karim, Shuan Osman,; Kohlberger, Martin,; Marten, Lutz,; McDonnell, Bradley,; Mithun, Marianne,; Modi, Yankee,; Mora-Bustos, Armando,; Mous, Maarten,; Ortiz Villegas, Alejandra Itzel,; Oyzon, Voltaire Q.,; Pacchiarotti, Sara,; Payne, Doris L.,; Payne, Thomas E.,; Post, Mark W.,; Riedel, Kristina,; Salehi, Ali,; Simon, Camille,; Truong, Christina L.,; Van Linden, An,; Vander Klok, Jozina,; Zúñiga, Fernando,
• HerausgeberIn: Pacchiarotti, Sara,; Zuniga, Fernando,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 373
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 477 p.)

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 mean...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• Part I: Americas
• 2 Typical and atypical applicative constructions in Yaqui
• 3 The functions of applicative morphology in Shiwiar
• 4 Applicatives and beyond: Barbareño Chumash
• 5 Applicative periphrastic constructions in the Colombian Spanish from The Andes
• 6 Spatial prefixes as applicatives in Harakmbut
• Part II: Africa
• 7 Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis
• 8 Neglected functions of the Bantu applicative in relation to Locations: new insights from Fwe (K402)
• 9 The applicative(-like) function of Nilotic directionals: Introducing themes
• Part III: Asia (including the Middle East)
• 10 An applicative analysis of Soranî “absolute prepositions”
• 11 Applicatives in Macro-Tani languages (Trans-Himalayan, Eastern Himalaya): Forms, functions and historical origins
• 12 Canonical and Non-canonical applicatives in Waray
• 13 The sociative/benefactive applicative construction and the introduction of attitude holders in Tibetan
• 14 Neglected functions of western Indonesian applicatives
• 15 The evolution of non-syntactic functions of applicatives: -i suffixation in Javanese and neighboring languages
• Subject index
• Language index