By John Newman (Ed.)
ISBN-10: 1556196482
ISBN-13: 9781556196485
The papers during this quantity discover facets of "GIVE" and "GIVE-type" verbs throughout languages. They rfile a variety of constructional probabilities with "GIVE" verbs, in addition to addressing concerns when it comes to the morphology, syntax and semantics of "GIVE" structures. issues lined comprise: the article prestige of the "THING" and "RECIPIENT" in double item and applicative buildings; the syntactic and semantic gains had to build a "GIVE" clause in Sochiapan Chinantec, together with an animacy hierarchy, energetic as opposed to passive, antipassive, and direct as opposed to inverse voice; the level of causative use of a two-place predicate "GIVE" in Dutch; and a case examine of the purchase of kinds on the subject of ownership by means of a two-year-old English speaker.
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With some verbs OAgr causes irreg ularities to the verb stem. The irregularities in form are various and are illustrated in Table 6. For example, with cec 'to copulate' the form with DOAgr has a dif ferent stem, with cinec 'to follow' and fec 'to see' the infinitive marker -ec remains with the stem in the DOAgr form, with jec 'to eat', joc 'to wash' and oc 'to get' the vowel of the infinitive marker remains, and with madec 'to say' and qoc 'to hit' the plural DOAgr can form around the stem like a circumfix.
Z'graggen, John A. 1980. A Comparative Word List of the Mabuso Languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Linguistics, D32. Canberra: Australian Na tional University. Zwicky, Arnold M. 1977. On Clitics. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club. Zwicky, Arnold M. and Geoffrey K. Pullum 1982. Cliticization versus Inflections: English n't. Bloomington: Indiana Linguistics Club. Giving in Nawatl David Tuggy Summer Institute of Linguistics Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1.
GIVE in Amele 19 to the third person dual and plural morphemes -al and -ad, respectively. Where a verb has no object the -ad marking indicates that the action of the verb applies 'everywhere' or 'extensively'. Example (18) given above illus trates this. The -al marking indicates 'both' and example (28) illustrates this. Where a verb has an object the -ad marking indicates 'all' and the -al marking indicates 'both'. (28) Age jobon lecis eu bel-al-eig-a. PARTITIVE-ACTOR function only applies to verbs subcategorized [-DO].
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