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Combinatorial properties of Salish applicatives
Academic Work
Salish languages each have two to six different applicative suffixes, which signal that the syntactic object plays a semantic role other than the theme, for example recipient, benefactive, possessor, goal, or stimulus. The applicative suffixes are part of a rich system of verbal morphology marking voice and valence. This paper explores how the applicative suffixes are ordered with respect to other suffixes, such as reflexives, reciprocals, causatives, non-control transitives, and lexical suffixes. These suffixes can appear either before or after the applicative suffixes, thus providing evidence for the compositional nature of Salish verb morphology.
AW.00098
2007
Language and Linguistics
UBC Working Papers in Linguistics Press
International Conference on Salish Languages, 42, 176-219
International Conference on Salish Languages, 42, 176-219
Working Papers
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