Benefactives and malefactives
Subtitle: typological perspectives and case studies
By: edited by Fernando Zúñiga, Seppo Kittilä.
Contributors: Zúñiga, Fernando.; Kittilä, Seppo.
Series: Typological studies in language -- v. 92
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027206732; 9789027288318
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Benefactive constructions; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Case; Case grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: List of contributors; title: Introduction: benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective / Seppo Kittilä & Fernando Zúñiga; title: Benefactive applicative periphrases: A typological approach / Denis Creissels; title: Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary; title: Framework for benefactive typology / Tomoko Yamashita Smith; title: An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions / Paula Radetzky & Tomoko Smith; title: The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses / Karsten Schmidtke-Bode; title: Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives / Kaoru Kiyosawa & Donna B. Gerdts; title: Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycurú) / Marisa Censabella; title: Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun / Fernando Zúñiga; title: The benefactive semantic potential of 'caused reception' constructions: A case study of English, German, French, and Dutch / Timothy Colleman; title: Beneficiary coding in Finnish / Seppo Kittilä; title: Benefactives in Laz / René Lacroix; title: Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib verb system / Nicolas Quint; title: Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) / Sascha Völlmin; title: A 'reflexive benefactive' in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) / Raymond Boyd; title: Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Taqshelhiyt / Christian J. Rapold; title: Benefactive strategies in Thai / Mathias Jenny; title: Korean benefactive particles and their meanings / Jae Jung Song; title: Malefactivity in Japanese / Eijiro Tsuboi; title: General index (names, languages, subjects).