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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Studies in African Linguistics
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
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Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Applicative Constructions
Author: David A. Peterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199270929
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199270929
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Studies in Buli Grammar
Author: Michael J. Kenstowicz
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Category : Buli language
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Buli language
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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A Study of Western Nigritic
Author: Hans G. Mukarovsky
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1850
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1850
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Dicourse-functional, and Typological Aspects of Applicative Constructions
Author: David August Peterson
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Fachkatalog Afrika: Sprachen-Linguistik
Author: Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Category : Africa
Languages : un
Pages : 482
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Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : un
Pages : 482
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