“Two's company, more is a crowd”: the linguistic encoding of multiple-participant events
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Bhuvana Narasimhan
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Sonja Eisenbeiß
Abstract
This issue investigates the linguistic encoding of events with three or more participants from the perspectives of language typology and acquisition. Such “multiple-participant events” include (but are not limited to) any scenario involving at least three participants, typically encoded using transactional verbs like ‘give’ and ‘show’, placement verbs like ‘put’, and benefactive and applicative constructions like ‘do (something for someone)’, among others. There is considerable crosslinguistic and withinlanguage variation in how the participants (the Agent, Causer, Theme, Goal, Recipient, or Experiencer) and the subevents involved in multipleparticipant situations are encoded, both at the lexical and the constructional levels.
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Articles in the same Issue
- “Two's company, more is a crowd”: the linguistic encoding of multiple-participant events
- Three-participant events in the languages of the world: towards a crosslinguistic typology
- A typology of tritransitives: alignment types and motivations
- Encoding three-participant events in the Lao clause
- On giving, receiving, affecting and benefitting in Jalonke
- External possession and utterance interpretation: a crosslinguistic exploration
- VP-shell analysis for the acquisition of Japanese intransitive verbs, transitive verbs, and causatives
- The genetic matrix of Mayan applicative acquisition
