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Benefactive Constructions in Japanese
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2014 Two Japanese benefactive constructions are explored in the article: converb form of the verb -te/-de plus kudasaru and converb form of the verb -te/-de plus kureru. Semantic verb subclasses, capable of generating those constructions, are analyzed.
I I Bass
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Semantics of Japanese Benefactive Constructions: A Corpus-based Research
, 2022 As benefactives in other languages of the world, Japanese benefactive constructions can be used in various meanings apart from the core benefactive meaning. In previous research their semantics is normally described separately for each of the auxiliary
Solomkina, Nataliya A.
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Benefactive and malefactive constructions in Taiwan Southern Min
, 2022 This paper aims to investigate both Fagerli’s (2001) proposal that in serializing languages benefactive and malefactive constructions often involve the morpheme denoting ‘give’, and Radetzky & Smith’s (2010) proposal that East and South Asian ...
Huei-Ling Lin
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Linguistic Discovery, 2014 This paper compares the expression of beneficiaries with that of typical arguments and typical adjuncts in a sample of languages illustrating the variation in the extent to which NPs encoding beneficiaries show a syntactic behavior more or less similar ...
Denis Creissels
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Constructional analogy and reanalysis in possessive applicatives
Glossa, 2020 Although possessors internal to an argument DP do not qualify as canonical controllers of verbal agreement, in some languages an internal possessor may be cross‑referenced on an applicative verb.
Irina Nikolaeva
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Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese: A Typological and Areal Perspective
Languages, 2023 The morpheme ‘give’ is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the distinct forms and multiple functions of ‘give’ in 27 varieties of Hui Chinese, a ...
Wen Lu, Pui Yiu Szeto
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Serial verb reduplication in the Mabia languages of West Africa
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2022 This paper introduces and discusses the notion of Serial Verb Reduplication (SVR) in two Mabia languages of West Africa, Dagaare and Kusaal. The authors show that the phenomenon of SVRs, though under-represented in the literature, has a wide scope ...
Adams Bodomo, Hasiyatu Abubakari
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, 2022 International audienceSeveral Tibetic languages feature a cognate sociative/benefactive applicative construction which grammaticalised from a root related to the idea of 'association' or 'help'.
Simon, Camille
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Corpus in fabula. Benefactive Imperatives as joint actions [PDF]
, 2020 Questo lavoro è uno studio cross-linguistico interdisciplinare che mette a confronto alcuni tipi di richieste verbali formulate con l’imperativo accompagnato da un pronome dativo benefattivo; le lingue interessate sono l’italiano, il portoghese ...
Gazzoni, Sandra <1969>
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Linguistic Discovery, 2012 This paper discusses alignment patterns in three-participant constructions in Blackfoot (Western Algonquian; Canada, USA). We demonstrate the effects of referential hierarchies relating to animacy, person and specificity.
Lena Russell +3 more
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