Applicative Constructions
ISBN13: 9780199270927ISBN10: 0199270929
Hardback,
305 pages
Feb 2007,
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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.Features
- First lengthy, cross-linguistic study of the applicative constructions from both functional and diachronic point of view
- Author challenges common assumptions about applicative constructions
- Analyses interface between system and usage
- Based on corpora collected from under-examined languages (East Asia, Africa, Indo-America)
About the Author(s)
David A. Peterson is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College and works on Tibeto-Burman languages. He joined this institution after a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley (1999), followed by a postdoctoral research at the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, where he conducted research on Kuki-Chin languages (Bangladesh).
