Applicative Constructions

• First lengthy, cross-linguistic study of the applicative constructions from both functional and diachronic point of view
• Author challenges common assumptions about applicative constructions
• Analyses interface between system and usage
• Based on corpora collected from under-examined languages (East Asia, Africa, Indo-America)

Readership: The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of syntactic typology and theory, specialists in historical morphosyntax, and to those interested in African, American Indian, and east Asian languages.

David A. Peterson, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Dartmouth College

"a valuable contribution to the study of applicative constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective...the book is undoubtedly one of a kind...well writtian and informative...insightful and very educational." - Mikko Kupla Nordic Journal of Linguistics

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