29.4066, Qs: Co-occurrence of Applicative and Preposition

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Subject: 29.4066, Qs: Co-occurrence of Applicative and Preposition

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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 22:32:34
From: Simon Musgrave [simon.musgrave at monash.edu]
Subject: Co-occurrence of Applicative and Preposition

 
I am posting this query on behalf of one of my PhD students. We will post a
summary of responses in due course.

>From existing studies of applicatives, only two Austronesian languages, Taba
and Indonesian, have been documented to unexpectedly retain a preposition when
an applicative affix is used to promote a previously non-core object to core. 
Bowden, in his grammatical description of Taba (2001), states that it is
possible for the same idea to be expressed using three possibilities. Firstly,
that the third entity is introduced by a preposition, secondly that the
applied object is marked by an applicative morpheme and thirdly that the
applied object can be marked by an applicative morpheme and preposition, as
the following examples show. 

(1)a. Ahmad npun kolay 
Ahmad  3SG=kill snake 
‘Ahmad killed a snake.’ 

b. Ahmad npun kolay ada peda PREPOSITION
Ahmad 3SG=kill snake with machete 
‘Ahmad killed a snake with a machete.’ 

c. Ahmad npunak kolay pedaAPPLICATIVE
Ahmad 3SG=kill-APPL snake machete 
‘Ahmad killed a snake with a machete.’ 

d. Ahmad npunak kolay ada pedaBOTH
Ahmad 3SG=kill-APPL snake with machete 
‘Ahmad killed a snake with a machete.’ (2001:204)

Sometimes Indonesian clauses with applicative verbs suffixed with –kan retain
the preposition directly following the verb when it is expected to have been
lost according to conventional grammar rules, as shown in 2. 

(2)a. Yang penting saya sangat men-cinta-i Sandy 
REL important 1SG very meN.love.APPL Sandy 
dan  meny-enang-kan atas semua ke-jadi-an itu 
 meN-senang-kan     
and meN-pity-APPL on all event that 
‘What is important is that I love Sandy and regret everything that happened.’ 
(Musgrave 2001:156)

b. Kami juga sudah mem-bicara-kan dengan pem-erintah pusat
2PL also already meN-talk-APPL with government central
di Jakarta soal rencana men-ambah beasiswa Jerman
in Jakarta matter plan meN-increase scholarship German
untuk Indonesia…    
for Indonesia    
‘We have also spoken with the central government in Jakarta about the plan to
increase German scholarships to Indonesia.’   (Quasthoff & Gottwald 2012:
indmix_565272)

Previous studies of Indonesian have noted the co-occurrence of applicatives
and prepositions and have usually made passing comments often speculating that
this feature is prevalent in non-standard Indonesian. 

Our query is whether any list subscribers know of other languages which show
this phenomenon and has anyone written about it? 

References 
Bowden, John. 2001. Taba: Description of a South Halmahera language. Canberra:
Pacific Linguistics.
Musgrave, Simon. 2001. Non-subject arguments in Indonesian. The University of
Melbourne. (PhD thesis).
Quasthoff, Uwe & Sebastian Gottwald. 2012. Leipzig corpus collection. (Ed.)
Uwe Quasthoff & Gerhard Heyer. University of Leipzig.
http://corpora2.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/.
 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Austronesian



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