Benefactives are constructions used to express that a state of affairs holds to someone’s advantage. The same construction sometimes also serves as a malefactive, whose meanings are generally not a simple mirror image of the benefactive. Benefactive constructions cover a wide range of phenomena: malefactive passives, general and specialized benefactive cases and adpositions, serial verb constructions and converbal constructions (including e.g. verbs of giving and taking), benefactive applicatives, and other morphosyntactic strategies. The present book is the first collection of its kind to be published on this topic. It includes both typological surveys and in-depth descriptive studies, exploring both the morphosyntactic properties and the semantic nuances of phenomena ranging from the familiar English double-object construction and the Japanese adversative passive to comparable phenomena found in lesser-known languages of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The book will appeal to typologists and linguists interested in linguistic diversity and it will also be a useful reference work for linguists working on language description.
Table of contents
Preface
vii
List of contributors
ix–x
Introduction: Benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective Seppo Kittil? and Fernando Zú?iga
1–28
Benefactive applicative periphrases: A typological approach Denis Creissels
29–70
Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary framework for benefactive typology Tomoko Yamashita Smith
71–96
An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions Paula Radetzky and Tomoko Smith
97–120
The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
121–146
Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives Kaoru Kiyosawa and Donna B. Gerdts
147–184
Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycurú) Marisa Censabella
185–202
Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun Fernando Zú?iga
203–218
The benefactive semantic potential of ‘caused reception’ constructions: A case study of English, German, French, and Dutch Timothy Colleman
219–244
Beneficiary coding in Finnish Seppo Kittil?
245–270
Benefactives in Laz René Lacroix
271–294
Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib very system Nicolas Quint
295–316
Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) Sascha V?llmin
317–330
A “reflexive benefactive” in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) Raymond Boyd
331–350
Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Tashelhiyt Christian J. Rapold
351–376
Benefactive strategies in Thai Mathias Jenny
377–392
Korean benefactive particles and their meanings Jae Jung Song
393–418
Malefactivity in Japanese Eijiro Tsuboi
419–436
Index
437–440
Table of contents
Preface
vii
List of contributors
ix–x
Introduction: Benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective Seppo Kittil? and Fernando Zú?iga
1–28
Benefactive applicative periphrases: A typological approach Denis Creissels
29–70
Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary framework for benefactive typology Tomoko Yamashita Smith
71–96
An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions Paula Radetzky and Tomoko Smith
97–120
The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses Karsten Schmidtke-Bode
121–146
Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives Kaoru Kiyosawa and Donna B. Gerdts
147–184
Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycurú) Marisa Censabella
185–202
Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun Fernando Zú?iga
203–218
The benefactive semantic potential of ‘caused reception’ constructions: A case study of English, German, French, and Dutch Timothy Colleman
219–244
Beneficiary coding in Finnish Seppo Kittil?
245–270
Benefactives in Laz René Lacroix
271–294
Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib very system Nicolas Quint
295–316
Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) Sascha V?llmin
317–330
A “reflexive benefactive” in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) Raymond Boyd
331–350
Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Tashelhiyt Christian J. Rapold
351–376
Benefactive strategies in Thai Mathias Jenny
377–392
Korean benefactive particles and their meanings Jae Jung Song
393–418
Malefactivity in Japanese Eijiro Tsuboi
419–436
Index
437–440