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Collapse of genitive and benefactive case in Ecuadorian Quechua?
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017 In Ecuadorian Quechua the markers for genitive and benefactive case have become indistinguishable in form: both are basically -pak. This squib discusses the issue whether there has also been a merger in the underlying representation, or whether they ...
Muysken, Pieter
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A preliminary study of Belitung Malay
Nusa, 2022 This is a preliminary study of Belitung Malay (BM), a vernacular Malay dialect spoken on Belitung Island. Following an outline of the BM sociolinguistic situation, some structural features are described.
Yoshimi Miyake +2 more
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Between the historical languages and the reconstructed language : an alternative approach to the Gerundive + “Dative of Agent” construction in Indo-European [PDF]
, 2017 It is argued by Hettrich (1990) that the “dative of agent” construction in the Indo-European languages most likely continues a construction inherited from Proto-Indo-European.
Barddal, Johanna +2 more
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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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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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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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Ditransitive verbs and the ditransitive construction: a diachronic perspective [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs
Colleman, Timothy
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Grammatical relations in Ikalanga
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe.
Joyce T. Mathangwane, E. Kweku Osam
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