Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages

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Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages

Edited by: Fernando Zuniga and Denis Creissels

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 7 | Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL]

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This book presents a state-of-the-art cross-linguistic survey of applicative constructions in the functional-typological tradition. An introductory section sets the terminological and analytical stage, presents the methodology used by the different chapters, and provides a typological outlook. The individual contributions address the morphological, syntactic and semantic variation of applicatives, as well as their discourse-pragmatic function. They cover all major language families and some isolates that feature some illuminating version of the phenomenon, paying special attention to language-internal variation and unity. The phenomena surveyed range from those instances usually considered canonical (valency-increasing, syntactically and semantically predictable, productive, dedicated, and optional) to those occasionally understudied in descriptive works and frequently neglected in comparative studies (valency-neutral, rather unpredictable, lexicalized, syncretic, and/or obligatory).

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Fernando Zúñiga, University of Bern, Switzerland. Denis Creissels, Université Lyon 2, France.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Purpose and Aim of the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Part I: General chapters
1 Applicative constructions: An introductory overview Fernando Zúñiga and Denis Creissels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2 Questionnaire on applicative constructions Fernando Zúñiga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
3 Languages examined or referred to in the present book Denis Creissels, Fernando Zúñiga and George Moroz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Part II: Case studies
Individual languages
4 Hul’q’umi’num’ Salish applicative constructions Donna B. Gerdts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
5 Applicatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac David Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
6 Applicatives in Toba/Qom (Guaykuruan) Marisa Censabella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
7 The applicative constructions of Mapudungun Fernando Zúñiga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
8 Applicative constructions and non-applicative uses of applicative morphology in Tswana (Bantu) Denis Creissels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
9 Applicativization in Amharic Mengistu Amberber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
10 Applicative constructions in Standard Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) Simon Musgrave, I. Wayan Arka and Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	279
Areal overviews
11 Contact-induced diffusion of applicatives in northwestern Amazonia? Rik van Gijn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
12 Applicatives in Papuan languages William A. Foley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
13 Applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages Peter K. Austin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
14 Applicativizing preverbs in selected European languages Fernando Zúñiga, Peter Arkadiev and Veronika Hegedűs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
Genealogical overviews
15 Applicatives in Northern Uto-Aztecan languages Tim Thornes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	475
16 Applicative constructions in Uto-Aztecan languages from Northwestern Mexico Albert Álvarez González and Zarina Estrada-Fernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	509
17 Applicative constructions in the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan (Eskimo-Aleut) languages Marianne Mithun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	557
18 Applicatives across Algonquian Hunter Thompson Lockwood and Monica Macaulay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	601
19 Applicative constructions in Mayan languages: An overview with special focus on Chontal Brad Montgomery-Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	645
20 Applicative constructions in two Otomanguean families: Otomi and Zapotec Néstor Hernández-Green and Oscar López Nicolás Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	679
21 The polyfunctional applicative ^*-ɪd in Bantu languages Sara Pacchiarotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	719
22 B-applicatives and I-applicatives in Atlantic languages (Niger-Congo) Sylvie Voisin and Denis Creissels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	749
23 Nilotic applicatives Doris L. Payne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	783
24 Applicative constructions in Cushitic Martine Vanhove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	835
25 Applicative constructions in the Northwest Caucasian languages Peter Arkadiev, Yury Lander and Irina Bagirokova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	869
26 Applicative constructions in Kartvelian Kevin Tuite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	913
27 Applicative derivations in Kiranti Guillaume Jacques and Aimée Lahaussois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	943
28 Applicative constructions in languages of western Indonesia Bradley McDonnell and Christina L. Truong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	971
Part III: Theoretical/Comparative outlook
29 Understanding applicatives Maria Polinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1007
30 Applicatives cross-linguistically: Features and distribution George Moroz and Maria Polinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1033
31 Applicative and related constructions: Results and perspectives Denis Creissels and Fernando Zúñiga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1045
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1077
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1083

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eBook published on:

January 29, 2024

eBook ISBN:

9783110730951

Hardcover published on:

January 29, 2024

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110735482

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Front matter:

10

Main content:

1090

Illustrations:

31

Coloured Illustrations:

10

Tables:

121

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110730951

eBook ISBN: 9783110730951

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110735482

Keywords for this book

Applicative; Transitivity; Valency; Voice

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Researchers interested in Language Typology, Semantics and Morphsyntax and Linguists in General.

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