Western Austronesian applicative constructions : continuity and change in form and meaning / by Christina L. Truong.
| Author/creator | Truong, Christina L. author |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Boston : Brill, [2025] |
| Description | xii, 364 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Endangered and lesser-studied languages and dialects ; |
| Contents | Introduction -- Case Study: Sundanese Applicatives -- Towards a Typologically-Grounded, Constructional Approach to Applicatives -- The Distribution of Applicatives in West Nusantara Languages: A Bird's Eye View -- Interpreting Distributional Patterns through Geographic Typology -- Properties of Applicative Constructions and Their Distribution in West Nusantara -- A Functional Typology of Applicative Constructions in Languages of West Nusantara -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "Applicative constructions are a distinctive grammatical feature of the Austronesian languages of western Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. Applicatives in these languages show varied syntactic and semantic properties, and are closely connected to causativization, aspectual meanings, and symmetrical voice. As a result, they do not fit neatly into 'canonincal' patterns for applicatives. This book adopts a construction-based, typologically-grounded approach, treating applicatives as pairings of form and meaning. Data from 85 languages is analyzed systematically, combining careful description with quantitative methods and extensive use of geomapping to explore the diverse properties of applicatives in this region and their diachronic development"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Truong, Christina L. Western Austronesian applicative constructions Boston : Brill [2025] 9789004737136 |
| LCCN | 2025032005 |
| ISBN | 9789004737129 |
| ISBN | 900473712X |
| ISBN | ebook |
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