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The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori
Abstract
The case-system of Māori is often disputed. Through Role and Reference Grammar, this analysis examines give and take verbs where both accusative and ergative elements of the grammar intersect in argument realisation. Give verbs hoatu and homai pattern accusatively. There are two verbal forms which lexicalise directionality. With preposition choice, the semantic role of the ‘recipient’ is elucidated. The sense and logical structure of the verb will be altered. The prepositions provide insight into possession in Māori. Take in Māori is realised with two verbal forms. Tango exhibits accusative marking, riro exhibits ergative marking. An examination of the give and take verbs in the marked voice, the actor-emphatic and nominalizations underscore some of the challenges in categorizing the Māori case-system.
Abstract
The case-system of Māori is often disputed. Through Role and Reference Grammar, this analysis examines give and take verbs where both accusative and ergative elements of the grammar intersect in argument realisation. Give verbs hoatu and homai pattern accusatively. There are two verbal forms which lexicalise directionality. With preposition choice, the semantic role of the ‘recipient’ is elucidated. The sense and logical structure of the verb will be altered. The prepositions provide insight into possession in Māori. Take in Māori is realised with two verbal forms. Tango exhibits accusative marking, riro exhibits ergative marking. An examination of the give and take verbs in the marked voice, the actor-emphatic and nominalizations underscore some of the challenges in categorizing the Māori case-system.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish 13
- Degrees of causivity in German lassen causitive constructions 53
- Grammaticalization of ‘give’ in Slavic between drift and contact 107
- ‘Give’ and semantic maps 129
- How Europeans GIVE 147
- Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese 177
- The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori 195
- GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic 227
- Giving is receiving 253
- Enabling and allowing in Hebrew 271
- Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English 295
- The morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian 327
- Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian 353
- Causation in the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara 385
- The fare causative derivation in Italian 425
- Information-structural encoding of recipient in non-canonical alignments of Persian 463
- Index 491
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish 13
- Degrees of causivity in German lassen causitive constructions 53
- Grammaticalization of ‘give’ in Slavic between drift and contact 107
- ‘Give’ and semantic maps 129
- How Europeans GIVE 147
- Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese 177
- The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori 195
- GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic 227
- Giving is receiving 253
- Enabling and allowing in Hebrew 271
- Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English 295
- The morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian 327
- Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian 353
- Causation in the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara 385
- The fare causative derivation in Italian 425
- Information-structural encoding of recipient in non-canonical alignments of Persian 463
- Index 491
