A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets
Abstract Together with other Northern Samoyedic languages, Enets shows a crosslinguistically unusual way of expressing benefactive semantics. The Enets benefactive construction consists of a specific “destinative” affix that marks the presence of a beneficiary in a given clause and of a possessive a...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/ling-2014-0025 2023-05-15T16:06:10+02:00 A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets Khanina, Olesya Shluinsky, Andrey 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2014-0025 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2014-0025/xml https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2014-0025/html en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH Linguistics volume 52, issue 6, page 1391-1431 ISSN 1613-396X 0024-3949 Linguistics and Language Language and Linguistics journal-article 2014 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2014-0025 2022-05-11T14:46:57Z Abstract Together with other Northern Samoyedic languages, Enets shows a crosslinguistically unusual way of expressing benefactive semantics. The Enets benefactive construction consists of a specific “destinative” affix that marks the presence of a beneficiary in a given clause and of a possessive affix that marks the beneficiary itself. Both affixes are attached to one of the verb's arguments. This makes the beneficiary encoded as an adnominal dependent of the verb's argument. This paper has two goals. Firstly, a detailed description of the Enets benefactive construction is provided, including its morphology, morphosyntax, and peculiarities of the differential object marking. Secondly, we aim to establish crosslinguistic parallels with the Enets benefactive construction. While phenomena with similar semantic features have been attested in the world's languages, we show that the Enets construction demonstrates a unique set of semantic and morphosyntactic properties. Article in Journal/Newspaper Enets samoyed* De Gruyter (via Crossref) Linguistics 52 6 1391 1431 |
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Abstract Together with other Northern Samoyedic languages, Enets shows a crosslinguistically unusual way of expressing benefactive semantics. The Enets benefactive construction consists of a specific “destinative” affix that marks the presence of a beneficiary in a given clause and of a possessive affix that marks the beneficiary itself. Both affixes are attached to one of the verb's arguments. This makes the beneficiary encoded as an adnominal dependent of the verb's argument. This paper has two goals. Firstly, a detailed description of the Enets benefactive construction is provided, including its morphology, morphosyntax, and peculiarities of the differential object marking. Secondly, we aim to establish crosslinguistic parallels with the Enets benefactive construction. While phenomena with similar semantic features have been attested in the world's languages, we show that the Enets construction demonstrates a unique set of semantic and morphosyntactic properties. |
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A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets |
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A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets |
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A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets |
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A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets |
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