Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis

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Main author: Gibson, Hannah
Other authors: Marten, Lutz
Mous, Maarten
Riedel, Kristina
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description This chapter examines apparent competing functions of applicatives, prepositions and locative-marked phrases in a number of Bantu languages, focussing on the interaction of these types of categories in various applicative constructions. We show that in a number of Bantu languages, prepositional constructions compete with applicatives. The interaction between the two construction types revolves around valency (the licensing of an additional object) and saliency (the encoding of pragmatic effects), two hallmarks of applicative constructions more widely. Evidence from this interaction, we propose, helps to better understand the diachronic development of applicatives. We further observe a diachronic reanalysis of the applicative marker from expressing both syntactic and pragmatic effects to a pure pragmatic marker of saliency, in the context of functionally and structurally ambiguous locative phrases.
author_additional Pacchiarotti, Sara
author_additionalStr Pacchiarotti, Sara
format Book Chapters
author Gibson, Hannah
author_facet Gibson, Hannah
Marten, Lutz
Mous, Maarten
Riedel, Kristina
authorStr Gibson, Hannah
author_letter Gibson, Hannah
author2 Marten, Lutz
Mous, Maarten
Riedel, Kristina
author2Str Marten, Lutz
Mous, Maarten
Riedel, Kristina
title Valency and saliency in Bantu applicatives: A diachronic reanalysis
publisher De Gruyter
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/37665/

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