Terminology for verbal derivation

[Lachlan Mackenzie]

Hi, John,
To me it seems like 'applicative' might be the word you're looking for. One applicative form can cover various meanings, in the way you describe for Bari -kindya.
Cf. David A. Peterson (2007). Applicative Constructions. OUP.
Best wishes,
Lachlan Mackenzie


> To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:40:26 +0300
> From: john at research.haifa.ac.il
> Subject: [FUNKNET] Terminology for verbal derivation
> 
>  
> 
> Dear Funknetters, 
> 
> I'm looking for a term to use to refer to a form
> for deriving verbs in Bari (-kindya) which seems to 
> 
> generally add an
> argument to the verb, but the argument can be any one of a variety of
> types--it can be 
> 
> an indirect object, a directional particle, just
> about anything it seems (for example, when added to the 
> 
> root meaning
> 'old age', it can take as an argument a place, with the meaning 'to live
> to an old age while 
> 
> living continuously at that place', or a
> nominalized form of a verb referring to an occupation, with the
> 
> 
> meaning 'to live to an old age while continuing to work at that
> occupation'). Do you have any ideas what 
> 
> term I might use to refer to
> this form of the verb? I was initially going to call it the
> 'Benefactive' because 
> 
> it's often used to add an indirect object (e.g.
> 'close a door for someone') but when I looked at all of the 
> 
> usages of
> this form it became clear that this is really a pretty small minority of
> its uses. 
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> John 
>