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    <p>Matthew, Daniel, Russell and all,</p>
    <p>I'm with Daniel on this one; in my 2017 paper I discuss precisely
      this issue, namely, how do we define the meanings of the relevant
      forms, and whether one of them has a meaning that can
      appropriately be characterized as "give".</p>
    <p>Abstracting away from word order, and assuming minimal
      morphology, what we have is a situation of the abstract form</p>
    <p>A X P Y R</p>
    <p>where A = Agent, P = Patient, R = Recipient, a translation into
      our contact language along the lines of A gave P to R, and an
      analytical question:  What are the meanings of X and Y (and should
      one of them be assigned the meaning "give")? Typically, both X and
      Y are poly- or macro-functional, and either of the two can occur
      without the other, resulting in constructions whose translational
      equivalents into our contact language do not involve "give". X and
      Y don't wear their glosses on their sleeves, as it were; the
      answer to our analytical question will depend on an in-depth
      language-specific analysis of the various functions of each of the
      two elements, X and Y.</p>
    <p>In Roon (SHWNG, Austronesian), there are two "give"
      constructions.  For the one illustrated in (3) of my 2017 paper, I
      argue that the basic meaning of X (<i>ve</i>) is "do", while that
      of Y (<i>fa</i>) is an oblique marker.  For the one illustrated in
      (10), X = Y (both have the form <i>ve</i>) and here too I argue
      that both mean "do".  Under an alternative more splitting
      analysis, the second element might be characterized as a
      "different" <i>ve</i> associated with an allative function;
      however, the first <i>ve</i> would still be vague between a
      variety of different functions, and, as I argue there, is most
      appropriately analyzed as meaning "do".</p>
    <p>The second part of the 2017 paper looks at a number of other
      languages of the region; while the patterns of
      poly-/macro-functionality differ from one language to another, in
      many of the cases, neither of the two elements, X and Y, would
      seem to warrant the assignation of a meaning "give".</p>
    <p>David</p>
    <p>
    </p>
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        Roman",serif" lang="EN-US">(3)<span style="mso-tab-count:1">   
        </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Musai<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">          </span>vye<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">                      </span>pipi<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">         </span>fa<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">         </span>Riksoni</i></span></p>
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      style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;
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        Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:
          1">         </span>Musa:<span style="font-variant:small-caps">pers<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><3sg.anim></span><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
          normal">ve</b><span style="mso-tab-count:1">   </span>money<span
          style="mso-tab-count:1">    </span><span
          style="font-variant:small-caps">obl<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">     </span>R</span>ikson<span
          style="font-variant:
          small-caps">:pers</span></span></p>
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        lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">         </span>'Musa
        gave money to Rikson.'</span></p>
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          style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Musai<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">          </span>vye<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">                       </span>pipi<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">         </span>ve<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1">      </span>Riksoni</i></span></p>
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          1">         </span>Musa:<span style="font-variant:small-caps">pers<span
            style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><3sg.anim></span>ve<span
          style="mso-tab-count:1">    </span>money<span
          style="mso-tab-count:1">    </span><b
          style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">ve</b><span
          style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="mso-tab-count:1">    
          </span>R</span>ikson<span style="font-variant:
          small-caps">:pers</span></span></p>
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        gave money to Rikson.'</span></p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/01/2022 18:16, Russell Barlow
      wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:207686872.325570.1643300187534@webmail.eva.mpg.de">
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      <div class="default-style"> Daniel, </div>
      <div class="default-style"> <br>
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      <div class="default-style"> I'm not sure I follow. Presumably we'd
        be relying on the translations of the *arguments*, not of the
        verbs, when figuring out the semantic roles of each verbal
        object. So, in examples of the sort that you, Eline, and I
        (maybe others) have provided, we see something like: </div>
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      <div class="default-style"> "boy take apple, give girl" </div>
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      </div>
      <div class="default-style"> ... to mean something like "the boy
        gives the girl an apple". I share your unease about considering
        the second verb in such cases to be "give" in the English sense.
        But I don't think there's any issue in figuring out which NP is
        semantically the theme and which NP is semantically the
        recipient. We could ignore the glosses of the verbs, and the
        semantic roles of the participants would still be clear: </div>
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      <div class="default-style"> verb1 apple, verb2 girl </div>
      <div class="default-style"> <br>
      </div>
      <div class="default-style"> Provided we know that "apple" and
        "girl" are both the objects of the verbs they follow, then we
        could say that the object of verb1 is a Theme, and the object of
        verb2 is a Recipient. I think what Matthew and I are both
        interested in finding is something like: </div>
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      <div class="default-style"> boy verb1 apple, girl verb2 apple </div>
      <div class="default-style"> <br>
      </div>
      <div class="default-style"> ... something like "the boy proffered
        the apple; the girl took the apple". </div>
      <div class="default-style"> <br>
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      <div class="default-style"> Best, </div>
      <div class="default-style"> Russell </div>
      <div class="default-style"> <br>
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        <p>Russell Barlow<br>
          Postdoctoral Researcher<br>
          Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<br>
          Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution<br>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:russell_barlow@eva.mpg.de">russell_barlow@eva.mpg.de</a></p>
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        <div> On 01/27/2022 4:41 PM Daniel Ross
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:djross3@gmail.com"><djross3@gmail.com></a> wrote: </div>
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          <div> Matthew, </div>
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          <div> Relying on translation equivalents in this case is not
            clear. If the verb "give" exclusively appears in SVCs (as is
            claimed for some languages), then it's only half of the
            lexical meaning of English <em>give</em>. We could
            translate it as something else, e.g. some active equivalent
            of 'receive' (several verbs like 'supply (the army)' or
            'load (the truck)' can be used in this way, although they're
            flexible including ditransitive usage like 'give' at least
            with prepositional arguments). </div>
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          <div> Russell, I have the same uncertainty about your
            question: how do we know what a "Theme" argument is, without
            relying on translation? In many languages with SVCs of this
            type, there is no case marking (in fact, SVCs are said by
            some to function as case markers), so I don't know what
            other evidence there would be aside from the translation of
            the verb itself, which only in the construction as a whole
            means 'give'. </div>
          <div> <br>
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          <div> I assume that the etymology of the verbs in these
            constructions is not 'give': that is, it's not the case that
            an original, full lexical verb 'give' taking three arguments
            was reduced to taking two arguments and expanded into this
            construction, but that some other verb grammaticalized into
            that function. There's been a lot written about these kinds
            of usage, but I'm not sure about the best sources to
            recommend for that specific etymological question. I do
            think it would be relevant to the original question, though.
            <br>
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          <div> Daniel <br>
          </div>
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          <div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr"> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at
            7:03 AM Matthew Dryer <<a href="mailto:dryer@buffalo.edu"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">dryer@buffalo.edu</a>>
            wrote: <br>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">Daniel,</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">This does not seem to be what my
                  colleague is looking for since the second verb still
                  arguably means ‘give’.</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">Matthew</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:
                        12pt; color: black;">From: </span></strong><span
                      style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Daniel Ross
                      <<a target="_blank"
                        href="mailto:djross3@gmail.com" rel="noopener"
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">djross3@gmail.com</a>><br>
                      <strong>Date: </strong>Wednesday, January 26,
                      2022 at 11:27 PM<br>
                      <strong>To: </strong>Matthew Dryer <<a
                        target="_blank" href="mailto:dryer@buffalo.edu"
                        rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">dryer@buffalo.edu</a>><br>
                      <strong>Cc: </strong>"<a target="_blank"
                        href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org"
                        rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>"
                      <<a target="_blank"
                        href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org"
                        rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
                      <strong>Subject: </strong>Re: [Lingtyp] languages
                      lacking a verb for 'give'</span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Dear Matthew,</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">This is a common pattern for
                      languages with serial verb constructions, along
                      the lines of "take book give him", etc. There has
                      been a lot written about the lack of argument
                      structure in these languages (some claiming that
                      three arguments are not possible in some
                      languages), and that SVCs can supplement that
                      argument structure (and possibly a small inventory
                      of verbs, according to some sources). I'm not as
                      confident in some of the more extreme claims about
                      this, but it is clear that this pattern is
                      widespread among many of these languages (I know
                      I've seen explicit claims for West Africa and
                      creoles, and probably elsewhere). At the same
                      time, it is not clear that these languages,
                      strictly speaking, lack a lexical verb "give",
                      since one of the verbs in this construction can be
                      translated as such, although it is used with
                      another verb (often 'take') to supplement it for
                      the full argument structure. Other patterns are
                      found too, and probably various other lexical
                      verbs are used in a function like 'give', so it
                      becomes a question of lexical translation. (This
                      more generally is related to patterns of verbs in
                      SVCs developing into prepositions.)</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">I'm sorry I don't immediately
                      have any specific languages/references in mind,
                      but let me know if you'd like me to try to find
                      some. I know that Sebba 1987 discusses this in
                      some detail, and here's one example:</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">ɔde sekaŋ no mãã me<br>
                      he-take knife the give-PAST me<br>
                      'S/he gave me the knife' [originally from
                      Christaller 1875: 118]</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Sebba, Mark. 1987. The syntax
                      of serial verbs: an investigation into
                      serialisation in Sranan and other languages.
                      Amsterdam: John Benjamins. <a target="_blank"
href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1075%2Fcll.2&data=04%7C01%7Cdryer%40buffalo.edu%7Cc44862af146441dbdbf808d9e14d210e%7C96464a8af8ed40b199e25f6b50a20250%7C0%7C0%7C637788544416223276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=SHIWY7LV%2B4KJ5mQ9%2FaNUhpSLtDvNn2s3udyusfGdNE0%3D&reserved=0"
                        rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">
                        https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.2</a></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">(Tangential note: SVCs like
                      this are generally considered <em> monoclausal</em>,
                      by a variety of metrics, so I wouldn't call this
                      "two analytic clauses", although the effect is the
                      same. My dissertation thoroughly reviews the issue
                      of monoclausality: <a target="_blank"
href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.5281%2Fzenodo.5546425&data=04%7C01%7Cdryer%40buffalo.edu%7Cc44862af146441dbdbf808d9e14d210e%7C96464a8af8ed40b199e25f6b50a20250%7C0%7C0%7C637788544416223276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=SO5DRkCQvGojEx0eGLfyTDzhiZDKioxLvXqGU8bmwoE%3D&reserved=0"
                        rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">
                        https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5546425</a> --
                      but I don't discuss this specific question about
                      'give'.)</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Finally, one extra comment,
                      which is probably not what your colleague is
                      after, is that there are some languages where the
                      lexical verb 'give' is (at least in some cases) a
                      zero root or null morpheme, i.e. indicated by lack
                      of phonological content plus other inflectional
                      morphology. This is discussed for some PNG
                      languages here:</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><a target="_blank"
href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F40037774%2FComrie_B_and_R_Zamponi_2019_Verb_root_ellipsis_In_Morphological_perspectives_papers_in_honour_of_Greville_G_Corbett_ed_by_M_Baerman_O_Bond_and_A_Hippisley_Edinburgh_Edinburgh_University_Press_pp_233_280&data=04%7C01%7Cdryer%40buffalo.edu%7Cc44862af146441dbdbf808d9e14d210e%7C96464a8af8ed40b199e25f6b50a20250%7C0%7C0%7C637788544416223276%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ONKTzIsx0gdsULoAdNVs81gRBFDA78i60cX2OLeHQJc%3D&reserved=0"
                        rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.academia.edu/40037774/Comrie_B_and_R_Zamponi_2019_Verb_root_ellipsis_In_Morphological_perspectives_papers_in_honour_of_Greville_G_Corbett_ed_by_M_Baerman_O_Bond_and_A_Hippisley_Edinburgh_Edinburgh_University_Press_pp_233_280</a></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Daniel</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 7:43 PM
                      Matthew Dryer <<a target="_blank"
                        href="mailto:dryer@buffalo.edu" rel="noopener"
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                      wrote:</p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"><a
                            name="m_-6529256804020571052_m_9006019862080693940__GoBack"
                            class="mce-item-anchor"
                            moz-do-not-send="true"></a>I am sending this
                          query on behalf of a colleague.</p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal">He wants to know <span
                            style="color: black;">whether anyone knows
                            of a language that lacks a "give" type verb
                            and would express something like "I gave him
                            the book" instead as something like "I
                            presented the book (to him) and he took it".
                            That is, is there a language that can only
                            express a give-type concept with two more
                            analytic clauses?</span></p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal">Matthew Dryer</p>
                        <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
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