TY - BOOK ID - 91524985 TI - Bantu applicative constructions AU - Pacchiarotti, Sara AU - Stanford University PY - 2020 SN - 9781684000593 1684000599 PB - Stanford, Ca CSLI Publications DB - UniCat KW - Applicative grammar. KW - Bantu languages KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Grammar. KW - Verb phrase. KW - Applicative constructions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:91524985 AB - This book focuses on different clause-level constructions involving reflexes of the Proto-Bantu multifunctional applicative *-ɪd. These constructions, widespread across the Bantu family, show that applicative morphology is not always syntactically valence-increasing. It performs many non-syntactic functions which are often not addressed in the relevant literature. Besides 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. Sara Pacchiarotti shows that several non-syntactic functions of applicative morphology in Bantu have parallels in genealogically unrelated and geographically distant language families. 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. ER -