Date: 27-Jul-2010 From: Josephine Say <saybrill.nl> Subject: Salish Applicatives: Kiyosawa, Gerdts E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Salish Applicatives
Series Title: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Published: 2010
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.nl
Author: Kaoru Kiyosawa
Author: Donna B. Gerdts
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004183933 Pages: 393 Price: Europe EURO 130
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004183933 Pages: 393 Price: U.S. $ 185
Abstract:
This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicatives in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. Applicative constructions, found in many polysynthetic languages, cast a semantically peripheral noun phrase as direct object. Drawing upon primary and secondary data from twenty Salish languages, the authors catalog the relationship between the form and function of seventeen applicative suffixes. The semantic role of the associated noun phrase and the verb class of the base are crucial factors in differentiating applicatives. Salish languages have two types of applicatives: relationals are formed on intransitive bases and redirectives on transitive ones. The historical development and discourse function of Salish applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.
Linguistic Field(s):
Language Documentation
Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
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