Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun
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Fernando Zúñiga
Abstract
This paper argues that two productive applicatives in Mapudungun, viz. -(l)el and -ñma, can be labeled benefactive and malefactive respectively, but only in a superficially impressionistic way. Based on a detailed survey of the literature on the language, as well as on synchronic evidence and some tentative internal reconstruction, I suggest that the yield of -ñma was originally probably neutral with respect to benefaction, and that it still is in some uses of this suffix. According to this account, the appearance of (l)el-applicatives (probably from elu- ‘give’ or el- ‘set’) gave rise to a privative opposition between the meaning of both morphemes with many bivalent predicates.
Abstract
This paper argues that two productive applicatives in Mapudungun, viz. -(l)el and -ñma, can be labeled benefactive and malefactive respectively, but only in a superficially impressionistic way. Based on a detailed survey of the literature on the language, as well as on synchronic evidence and some tentative internal reconstruction, I suggest that the yield of -ñma was originally probably neutral with respect to benefaction, and that it still is in some uses of this suffix. According to this account, the appearance of (l)el-applicatives (probably from elu- ‘give’ or el- ‘set’) gave rise to a privative opposition between the meaning of both morphemes with many bivalent predicates.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
- Benefactive applicative periphrases 29
- Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure 71
- An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions 97
- The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses 121
- Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives 147
- Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycurú) 185
- Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun 203
- The benefactive semantic potential of ‘caused reception’ constructions 219
- Beneficiary coding in Finnish 245
- Benefactives in Laz 271
- Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib very system 295
- Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) 317
- A “reflexive benefactive” in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) 331
- Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Tashelhiyt 351
- Benefactive strategies in Thai 377
- Korean benefactive particles and their meanings 393
- Malefactivity in Japanese 419
- Index 437
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
- Benefactive applicative periphrases 29
- Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure 71
- An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions 97
- The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses 121
- Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives 147
- Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycurú) 185
- Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun 203
- The benefactive semantic potential of ‘caused reception’ constructions 219
- Beneficiary coding in Finnish 245
- Benefactives in Laz 271
- Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib very system 295
- Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) 317
- A “reflexive benefactive” in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) 331
- Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Tashelhiyt 351
- Benefactive strategies in Thai 377
- Korean benefactive particles and their meanings 393
- Malefactivity in Japanese 419
- Index 437
