[Lingtyp] collective action marking

[Peter Austin]

As per Alex's mention of Australian Aboriginal languages please refer to:

Alan Dench. 1987. Kinship and collective activity in the Ngayarda languages
of Australia. Language in Society 16(3): 321-339.

Best
Peter


On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, 15:47 Alexander Coupe, <ARCoupe at ntu.edu.sg> wrote:

> Dear Randy and all,
>
> The use of reciprocal derivational morphology on verb stems for encoding
> collective meanings seems to be not uncommon cross-linguistically and is
> also found in Mongsen Ao. As Jirat notes for Thai, it applies to both
> transitive and intransitive verbs, but intransitive stems necessarily
> encode only collective meanings (see Coupe 2007: 198-200 for examples and
> brief discussion -
> https://www.academia.edu/1317662/A_Grammar_of_Mongsen_Ao). For transitive
> verbs, context determines whether a collective or reciprocal meaning
> obtains.
>
> Similar uses of reciprocal morphology for the expression of collective
> meanings are also found in Australian languages.
>
> Alec
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> From: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of
> Randy LaPolla <randy.lapolla at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, 24 July 2018 at 9:33 AM
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> Cc: weifeng liu <175204935 at qq.com>
> Subject: [Lingtyp] collective action marking
>
> Hi All,
> A student in China (Liu Weifeng) working on Kyrgyz asked me for references
> about collective marking on the verb. This marking in Kyrgyz (-ish-) is
> distinct from plural marking, and used together with plural marking, and
> implies the action was done by two or more people together rather than
> individually.
>
> I am aware of the following article, though do not have access to it, and
> don’t even know know for sure whether it documents this phenomenon:
>
> Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. 2007. Reciprocals, assistives and plural in
> Kirghiz. In Nedjalkov, Vladimir (with the assistance of Emma Geniusiene and
> Zlatka Guentcheva) (eds.), Typology of reciprocal constructions, 1231-1280.
> Amsterdam: Benjamins.
>
> I don't know of any other works on this type of category in any language.
> Has this been looked into in any languages?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Randy
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