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Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation : In honor of Scott DeLancey.
All branches of Eastern Nilotic have directionals. The Maa (Maasai) away morpheme has a range of functions, including motion away, direction away, distributive action or situation, continuous aspect, a possible plurality function, an applicative-like function, and with some verbs a valence decreasin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 103. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | All branches of Eastern Nilotic have directionals. The Maa (Maasai) away morpheme has a range of functions, including motion away, direction away, distributive action or situation, continuous aspect, a possible plurality function, an applicative-like function, and with some verbs a valence decreasing function. With some other verbs, away is simply lexicalized as part of the stem. The story of away is coherent once the core semantic function is understood, which Tucker and Mpaayei (1955) called 'Motion Away'. However, processes of both lexicalization and grammaticalization have taken place, and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1299736122 9781299736122 9789027271976 9027271976 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |