Jeff Good
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264102
- eISBN:
- 9780191734380
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264102.003.0009
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology
This chapter discusses some morphological idiosyncrasies that involve the four Bantu verbal suffixes. The terms passivization and applicativization are used in the chapter to refer to abstract ...
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This chapter discusses some morphological idiosyncrasies that involve the four Bantu verbal suffixes. The terms passivization and applicativization are used in the chapter to refer to abstract morphological processes that can be applied to basic verb roots. These can create derived verb stems that show the syntax and semantics that are associated with those terms. Background information on the Bantu verb stem is provided in the second section, while the third section features a simpler morphological irregularity found in the verb stem. The chapter also discusses morphological mismatches in the verb stem and various classes of deponent verb stems.Less
This chapter discusses some morphological idiosyncrasies that involve the four Bantu verbal suffixes. The terms passivization and applicativization are used in the chapter to refer to abstract morphological processes that can be applied to basic verb roots. These can create derived verb stems that show the syntax and semantics that are associated with those terms. Background information on the Bantu verb stem is provided in the second section, while the third section features a simpler morphological irregularity found in the verb stem. The chapter also discusses morphological mismatches in the verb stem and various classes of deponent verb stems.
John Bowers
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262014311
- eISBN:
- 9780262289252
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014311.003.0004
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter considers languages that exhibit so-called grammatical function changing morphology, and how they can be taken into account in very simple and direct fashion in the proposed approach ...
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This chapter considers languages that exhibit so-called grammatical function changing morphology, and how they can be taken into account in very simple and direct fashion in the proposed approach without assuming either special rules that change the function of noun phrases or extensive processes of syntactic incorporation. It first examines applicative constructions of the sort proposed by Baker (1988) by means of Preposition Incorporation before extending the proposed theory to a wider range of data. The chapter then looks at another general property of applicativization processes known as Marantz’s Generalization, which states that applicative objects behave syntactically like direct objects. It also discusses symmetrical vs. asymmetrical languages, the phenomenon of Possessor Raising, antipassive construction, and causativization.Less
This chapter considers languages that exhibit so-called grammatical function changing morphology, and how they can be taken into account in very simple and direct fashion in the proposed approach without assuming either special rules that change the function of noun phrases or extensive processes of syntactic incorporation. It first examines applicative constructions of the sort proposed by Baker (1988) by means of Preposition Incorporation before extending the proposed theory to a wider range of data. The chapter then looks at another general property of applicativization processes known as Marantz’s Generalization, which states that applicative objects behave syntactically like direct objects. It also discusses symmetrical vs. asymmetrical languages, the phenomenon of Possessor Raising, antipassive construction, and causativization.
