Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage)
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Sascha Völlmin
Abstract
Gumer (West-Gurage, South Ethiosemitic) has three suffixes to mark objects on the verb: ‘primary object’, ‘benefactive’, ‘malefactive/locative/instrumental’. BEN and MAL can occur with every verb to express in a rather broad sense that the event is ‘to one’s benefit’ or ‘to one’s detriment’. BEN covers the benefactive senses ‘recipient’, ‘deputative’, and ‘plain’. Generally, BEN and MAL express non-core participants. The three suffixes are mutually exclusive: if there are two concurring objects, the most salient candidate is chosen (which usually is BEN or MAL). Overt nominals BEN are marked with ye-, the same prefix that marks recipients. MAL are marked with ye- or be-. A construction with a subordinate form of barem ‘say’ (“saying for NP”) also expresses benefactives.
Abstract
Gumer (West-Gurage, South Ethiosemitic) has three suffixes to mark objects on the verb: ‘primary object’, ‘benefactive’, ‘malefactive/locative/instrumental’. BEN and MAL can occur with every verb to express in a rather broad sense that the event is ‘to one’s benefit’ or ‘to one’s detriment’. BEN covers the benefactive senses ‘recipient’, ‘deputative’, and ‘plain’. Generally, BEN and MAL express non-core participants. The three suffixes are mutually exclusive: if there are two concurring objects, the most salient candidate is chosen (which usually is BEN or MAL). Overt nominals BEN are marked with ye-, the same prefix that marks recipients. MAL are marked with ye- or be-. A construction with a subordinate form of barem ‘say’ (“saying for NP”) also expresses benefactives.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
