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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.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Semantics. --- Applicative constructions. --- Verb phrase. --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Predicate (Grammar) --- Verb phrase --- Applicative constructions (Grammar) --- Applicative constructions --- Phrasal verb --- Predicate --- Verbals --- Linguistics --- Philology