Applicative Constructions In The World S Languages

Author : Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1100 pages
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Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110730951

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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).

Author : Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110735482

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Applicative Constructions in the World's Languages by Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels Pdf

Author : Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110731095

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Applicative Constructions in the World’s Languages by Fernando Zuniga,Denis Creissels Pdf

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).

Author : David A. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199270927

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Applicative Constructions by David A. Peterson Pdf

This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time. Applicative constructions are typically described as transitivizing because they allow an intransitive base verb to have a direct object. The term originates from the seventeenth-century missionary grammars of Uto-Aztecan languages. Constructions designated as prepositional, benefactive, and instrumental may refer to the same or similar phenomena. Applicative constructions have been deployed in the development of a range of syntactic theories which have then often been used to explain their functions, usually within the context of Bantu languages. Dr Peterson provides a wealth of cross-linguistic information on discourse-functional, diachronic, and typological aspects of applicative constructions. He documents their unexpected synchronic variety and the diversity of diachronic sources about them. He argues that many standard assumptions about applicatives are unfounded, and provides a clear guide for future language-specific and cross-linguistic research and analysis.

Author : Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191531248

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The World Atlas of Language Structures by Martin Haspelmath,Matthew S. Dryer,David Gil,Bernard Comrie Pdf

The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question. The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages. The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.

Author : Susanne Maria Michaelis,Philippe Maurer,Martin Haspelmath,Magnus Huber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199691395

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The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures by Susanne Maria Michaelis,Philippe Maurer,Martin Haspelmath,Magnus Huber Pdf

The Atlas presents commentaries and colour maps showing how 130 linguistic features - phonological, syntactic, morphological, and lexical - are distributed among the world's pidgins and creoles. Designed and written by the world's leading experts, it is a unique resource of outstanding value for linguists of all persuasions throughout the world.

Author : Youngmi Jeong
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027233683

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Applicatives by Youngmi Jeong Pdf

"Applicatives" is concerned with the syntax of constructions that contain arguments that transcend the traditional subject-object characterization, and how the syntax of such constructions yields the interpretive effects that previous research has identified. At the empirical level this volume remedies the inadequacies and limitations of previous accounts by proposing a more nuanced view of all the factors that enter into the syntax and semantics of applicatives. At the theoretical level, this book offers empirical arguments for various theoretical options currently entertained in the minimalist program, among which movement into theta-position, multiple agree, anti-locality, and a very derivational view on successive cyclic movement.

Author : Sara Pacchiarotti,Fernando Zuniga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110778021

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Applicative Morphology by Sara Pacchiarotti,Fernando Zuniga Pdf

This book is about recurrent functions of applicative morphology not included in typologically-oriented definitions. Based on substantial cross-linguistic evidence, it challenges received wisdom on applicatives in several ways. First, in many of the surveyed languages, applicatives are the sole means to introduce a non-Actor semantic role into a clause. When there is an alternative way of expression, the applicative counterpart often has no valence-increasing effect on the targeted root. Second, applicative morphology can introduce constituents which are not syntactic objects and/or co-occur with obliques. Third, functions such as conveying aspectual nuances to the predicate (intensity, repetition, habituality) or its arguments (partitive P, highly individuated P), narrow-focusing constituents, and functioning as category-changing devices are attested in geographically distant and genetically unrelated languages. Further, this volume reveals that spatial-related morphology is prone to developing applicative functions in disparate languages and phyla. Finally, several contributions discuss the diachrony of applicative constructions and their (non-syntactic) attested functions, including a case of applicatives-in-the-making.

Author : David August Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 1383041458

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Applicative Constructions by David August Peterson Pdf

This book presents a typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It also addresses their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time.

Author : Kaoru Kiyosawa,Donna Gerdts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004183933

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Salish Applicatives by Kaoru Kiyosawa,Donna Gerdts Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicative constructions in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. The historical development and discourse function of applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.

Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748675869

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Construction Grammar and its Application to English by Martin Hilpert Pdf

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.

Author : Geert Booij
Publisher : Springer
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319743943

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The Construction of Words by Geert Booij Pdf

This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail. It deals with data from several domains of linguistics and contributes to an integration of findings from various subdisciplines of linguistics into a common model of the architecture of language. It presents applications and extensions of the model of Construction Morphology to a wide range of languages. Construction Morphology is one of the theoretical paradigms in present-day morphology. It makes use of concepts of Construction Grammar for the analysis of word formation and inflection. Complex words are seen as constructions, that is, pairs of form and meaning. Morphological patterns are accounted for by construction schemas. These are the recipes for coining new words and word forms, and they motivate the properties of existing complex words. Both schemas and individual words are stored, and hence there is no strict separation of lexicon and grammar. In addition to abstract schemas there are subschemas for subclasses of complex words with specific properties. This architecture of the grammar is in harmony with findings from other empirical domains of linguistics such as language acquisition, word processing, and language change.

Author : Sara Pacchiarotti
Publisher : Stanford Monographs in African Language (CSLI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Applicative grammar
ISBN : 1684000599

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Bantu Applicative Constructions by Sara Pacchiarotti Pdf

Introduction -- Data Challenges to Applicative Definitions -- Preliminaries to Bantu *-ıd Applicative Constructions -- Structure of Bantu *-ıd Applicative Construction Types -- Functions of Bantu *-ıd Applicative Construction Types -- Pseudo-Applicative Constructions in Tswana -- Historical Origin(s) and Function(s) of PB Applicative -- Conclusions.

Author : Karen Davis
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Hoava language
ISBN : UOM:39015064774436

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A Grammar of the Hoava Language, Western Solomons by Karen Davis Pdf

Author : Andrej Malchukov,Martin Haspelmath,Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110220377

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Studies in Ditransitive Constructions by Andrej Malchukov,Martin Haspelmath,Bernard Comrie Pdf

This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents, arose from the conference on ditransitive constructions held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) in 2007. It opens with the editors' survey article providing an overview of cross-linguistic variation in ditransitive constructions, followed by the questionnaire on ditransitive constructions, compiled by the editors in order to elicit various properties of these patterns. The editors' overview discusses formal properties of ditransitive constructions as well as behavioral (or syntactic) and lexical properties (i.e., the extension of ditransitive constructions across different verb classes). The volume includes 23 contributions describing properties of ditransitive constructions in languages from all over the world, written by leading experts. Care has been taken that the contributions to the volume will be representative of structural, geographic and genealogical diversity in the domain of ditransitive constructions. Thus the present volume provides a unique source of information on typological diversity of ditransitive constructions. It is expected that it will be of central interest to all scholars and advanced students of linguistics, especially to those working in the field of language typology and comparative syntax.