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Typological Studies in Language 125 Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World Simone Mattiola John Benjamins Publishing Company Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World Typological Studies in Language (TSL) issn 0167-7373 A companion series to the journal Studies in Language. Volumes in this series are functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl Editors Spike Gildea Fernando Zúñiga University of Oregon University of Bern Editorial Board Balthasar Bickel John Haiman Doris L. Payne Zurich St Paul Eugene, OR Bernard Comrie Martin Haspelmath Franz Plank Santa Barbara Jena Konstanz Denis Creissels Bernd Heine Dan I. Slobin Lyon Köln Berkeley William Croft Andrej A. Kibrik Sandra A. Thompson Albuquerque Moscow Santa Barbara Nicholas Evans Marianne Mithun Canberra Santa Barbara Carol Genetti Santa Barbara Volume 125 Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World by Simone Mattiola Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World Simone Mattiola University of Bologna John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. ./tsl. Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: () / (-) () (-) © – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com To Elena Table of contents List of tables List of figures List of maps List of abbreviations xvii Acknowledgements chapter 1 Introduction . Preliminaries . What is pluractionality? . Previous studies .. Dressler (1968) .. Cusic (1981) .. Xrakovskij (1997a) .. Other studies . Some issues on the cross-linguistic comparison of pluractional constructions . The functional-typological approach . The language sample . Distribution of pluractionality in the languages of the world . Outline of the book chapter 2 The semantic domain of pluractional constructions . A brief theory of events . The functional domain of pluractional constructions .. Core functions ... Pluractionality stricto sensu ... Spatial distributivity ... Participant plurality ... The case of single actions: Singulactionality .. Additional functions ... Non-prototypical plurality ... Degree ... Reciprocity .. Rare functions Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World . The conceptual space of pluractional constructions .. The semantic map model .. Pluractional conceptual space .. The linguistic bases of the pluractional conceptual space .. A tentative explanation of the pluractional conceptual space ... Singular functions ... Plural functions . Linguistic correlations of the pluractional conceptual space chapter 3 The morpho-syntax of pluractional constructions . Affixation . Reduplication .. Total reduplication and repetition: Grammatical vs. textual/ pragmatic functions . Lexical alternation .. Suppletion vs. lexical alternation . Other marking strategies . The problem of participant plurality: Syntactic agreement (nominal number) or semantic selection (verbal number)? chapter 4 Pluractional constructions: Some case studies . Pluractionals in Akawaio (Cariban, Venezuelan Cariban) .. Strategies of marking and functions of Akawaio pluractionals .. The semantic map of pluractionals in Akawaio .. The case of the collective -gong in Akawaio .. Beyond Akawaio: Pluractionality in other Cariban languages . Pluractionals in Beja (Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic) .. Strategies of marking and functions of Beja pluractionals ... Strategies of marking pluractionality in Beja ... The functional domain of Beja pluractionals .. The semantic map of pluractionals in Beja .. Pluractionality in Cushitic languages: An independent phenomenon . Pluractionals in Maa (Nilotic, Eastern Nilotic) .. Strategies of marking and functions of Maa pluractionals ... Lexical alternation ... Reduplication .. The semantic map of pluractionals in Maa Table of contents .. The case of directional away/ven: An incoming pluractional marker? .. Pluractionality in Maa . What do these case studies tell us? chapter 5 Pluractional constructions in cross-linguistic perspective . Pluractionality as a heterogeneous phenomenon .. Strategies of marking .. Diachronic data and sources ... Demonstratives ... Verbs of feeling: Love/like ... Locative or positional verbs: Sit/stay ... Motion verbs: Go ... Pluractional markers as sources for other constructions . The categorial status of pluractional constructions . The language- and construction-specificity of pluractionality . The definition of a comparative concept for pluractionality . The relationship between pluractionality and other types of constructions chapter 6 Conclusions appendix i Language sample appendix ii Pluractional constructions of the languages of the sample References Index
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