36.2646, Books: Western Austronesian Applicative Constructions: Truong (2025)

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Date: 03-Sep-2025
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Western Austronesian Applicative Constructions: Truong (2025)


Title: Western Austronesian Applicative Constructions
Subtitle: Continuity and Change in Form and Meaning
Series Title: Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/72712

Author(s): Christina L. Truong

Hardback ISBN:  978-90-04-73712-9
E-book ISBN:  978-90-04-73713-6 (Open Access; downloadable at
https://brill.com/display/title/72712)

Abstract:

Applicative constructions are a distinctive grammatical feature of the
Austronesian languages of western Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and
Brunei. Applicatives in these languages show varied syntactic and
semantic properties, and are closely connected to causativization,
aspectual meanings, and symmetrical voice. As a result, they do not
fit neatly into 'canonincal' patterns for applicatives. This book
adopts a construction-based, typologically-grounded approach, treating
applicatives as pairings of form and meaning. Data from 85 languages
is analyzed systematically, combining careful description with
quantitative methods and extensive use of geomapping to explore the
diverse properties of applicatives in this region and their diachronic
development.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Austronesian

Written In: English (eng)



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