![]() ![]() Tokens of Meaning: Papers in Honor of Lauri KarttunenĮdited by Cleo Condoravdi and Tracy Holloway King Such often-overlooked cross-linguistic data represent a serious challenge for most current operational definitions of applicative morphology, inside and outside of Bantu, as being ontologically a morphosyntactic valence-increasing device. Sara Pacchiarotti shows that several non-syntactic functions of applicative morphology in Bantu have parallels in genealogically unrelated and geographically distant language families. It performs many non-syntactic functions - some purely semantic, others related to information structure - which are often not addressed in the relevant literature.īesides comparative data from the entire Bantu domain, this work includes a first-ever historical case study of lexicalized, valence-neutral applicative constructions in the southern Bantu language Tswana. ![]() These constructions, widespread across the Bantu family, show that applicative morphology is not always syntactically valence-increasing. This book focuses on different clause-level constructions involving reflexes of the Proto-Bantu multifunctional applicative suffix *-ɪd. ![]()
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