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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Applicative constructions (Grammar) --- Applicative constructions. --- Linguistics --- Philology

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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

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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.

Applicative grammar. --- Bantu languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar. --- Verb phrase. --- Applicative constructions.