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GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic
Abstract
The subject of this chapter is the competition between two prepositional markers of the Recipient, n- (the dedicated ‘dative’ marker) and e- (basically a marker of the allative), as used with the verb ti ‘give’ and some of its derivates, especially performative verbs, in Bohairic Coptic. The preposition n-/na= appears to be appropriate when the Agent obtains control over the Recipient’s personal sphere (potency, volition, awareness or face) by a transfer of material or symbolic goods or by communicative acts. The preposition e-/ero= can appear when the Recipient’s personal sphere is not accessible for the Agent’s control or when the Agent provokes externally observable reactions of the Recipient without necessarily controlling his or her personal sphere.
Abstract
The subject of this chapter is the competition between two prepositional markers of the Recipient, n- (the dedicated ‘dative’ marker) and e- (basically a marker of the allative), as used with the verb ti ‘give’ and some of its derivates, especially performative verbs, in Bohairic Coptic. The preposition n-/na= appears to be appropriate when the Agent obtains control over the Recipient’s personal sphere (potency, volition, awareness or face) by a transfer of material or symbolic goods or by communicative acts. The preposition e-/ero= can appear when the Recipient’s personal sphere is not accessible for the Agent’s control or when the Agent provokes externally observable reactions of the Recipient without necessarily controlling his or her personal sphere.
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
