Applicative Constructions [Hardcover]

This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time.

1. Introduction
2. Two Case Studies of Applicative Morphosyntax
3. Morphosyntactic and Semantic Variation in Applicative Constructions
4. The Discourse Function of Applicative Constructions
5. The Evolution of Applicative Constructions
6. Structural Correlates of Applicative Constructions
7. Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index

David A. Peterson is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College and works on Tibeto-Burman languages. He joined this institution after a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley (1999), followed by a postdoctoral research at the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, where he conducted research on Kuki-Chin languages (Bangladesh).