Journal articles: 'Benefactive'

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Lin, Huei-Ling. "Benefactive and malefactive constructions in Taiwan Southern Min." Language and Linguistics / 語言暨語言學 19, no. 2 (March 15, 2018): 209–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lali.00008.lin.

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Abstract This paper aims to investigate both Fagerli’s (2001) proposal that in serializing languages benefactive and malefactive constructions often involve the morpheme denoting ‘give’, and Radetzky & Smith’s (2010) proposal that East and South Asian languages often involve different morphemes or structures in expressing benefaction or malefaction. Checking the proposals against benefactive and malefactive constructions in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) which involve optional benefactee and malefactee, this paper shows that both proposals find only partial support from TSM data. TSM uses the morpheme denoting ‘give’, i.e. hoo, in the malefactive construction involving optional malefactee, but not the benefactive construction involving optional benefactee, which involves the use of ka. Moreover, ka can also be used for introducing the malefactive. Even though the hoo malefactive construction and the ka benefactive construction have different structures, the constructions involving ka, no matter whether denoting benefaction or malefaction, have the same syntactic structure.

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Solomkina, Nataliya A. "Semantics of Japanese Benefactive Constructions: A Corpus-based Research." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 14, no. 3 (2022): 469–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2022.306.

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As benefactives in other languages of the world, Japanese benefactive constructions can be used in various meanings apart from the core benefactive meaning. In previous research their semantics is normally described separately for each of the auxiliary verbs, and the research itself is based either on introspection or working with sporadic texts and native-speakers. In this article we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of corpora dataset with three groups of Japanese benefactive auxiliaries: yaru and ageru , kureru and kudasaru , morau and itadaku . For this purpose we propose a set of three semantic features: speaker’s attitude, volitivity of a logical subgect and presence of a sentient beneficiary. Combinations of these features underlie the definitions of six main meanings we mark out: core benefactive, etiquettical, positive emotivity, monstrative, intensification and malefactive. In constructions with yaru auxiliary all of the above mentioned meanings are possible except for the positive emotivity. With ageru we encounter core benefactive and monstrative and intensification meanings. With kureru auxiliary core benefactive, malefactive and positive emotivity meanings turn out to be possible. With kudasaru we encounter only core benefactive usage. For morau and itadaku auxiliaries we register core benefactive and etiquettical usage. Proposed features, meanings and analysed data are applicable for comparative studies of benefactives in other languages as well as for further development of semantic description of Japanese benefactives.

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Pratiwi, Desak Putu Eka, I. Wayan Arka, and Asako Shiohara. "ON THE SITUATED SOCIO-CULTURAL MEANING OF BENEFACTIVES IN BALINESE." Linguistik Indonesia 36, no. 2 (February 21, 2019): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/li.v36i2.78.

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This paper discusses a preliminary corpus-based study of benefactives in Balinese, from a socio-cognitive theory of situated socio-cultural meaning (cf. Langlotz 2015, Danielle and Evans 2017). It is part of larger corpus-based research on parallel texts in the international SCOPIC (Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus) project (http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24742). Benefactive constructions are defined as those expressing states of affairs (SoA) hold to someone’s advantage (Kittilä and Zúñiga 2010). The notion of '(someone's) advantage' in Balinese benefactive meaning is tightly embedded in Balinese cultural worlds, having complex positive social meanings in which concepts such as 'self', 'reciprocity', 'in-.out-group', and spiritual rewards are central. The socio-cultural worlds are evidently reflected the speech level system in Balinese. There are different forms with fine-grained social meanings such as three words for 'give' in Balinese depending on the relative social relations of event and/or speech participants. An incorrect choice of linguistic device would lead to incorrect social indexing; hence socially unacceptable or inappropriate, not giving rise to the intended positive benefactive meaning. Our findings show that benefactive meaning is expressible through different means (lexical, morphological, and analytical/constructional). Surprisingly, the lexical benefactive 'give' is 100% expressed through the verb baang in our Balinese SCOPIC corpus, suggesting that the corpus is rather skewed towards the common (or low) register.

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Obana, Yasuko, and Michael Haugh. "Malefactive uses of giving/receiving expressions: The case of te-kureru in Japanese." East Asian Pragmatics 3, no. 2 (August 31, 2018): 201–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/eap.35239.

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The Japanese auxiliary te-kureru (‘giving to the speaker or the speaker’s group member’) is traditionally assumed to connote gratitude, favour, or ‘politeness’, and thus is regarded as a benefactive. In this article we argue that te-kureru does not inherently indicate benefaction, but rather that its occurrence, whether it is grammatically obligatory or optional, serves to intensify the speaker’s affective stance towards the referent in that given context. This accounts for the way in which this auxiliary may also contribute to expressions of sarcasm, anger, contempt, or retaliation. We propose that because malefaction is unfavourable to the speaker, the speaker deliberately takes a lower stance through te-kureru, making as if the other’s unfavourable action was taken from a higher position, which amounts to a putting down or deliberate neglect of the speaker. We also suggest that the auxiliary remains affectively neutral if the context is neither benefactive nor malefactive in orientation.

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Salsabila, Farda Naila, and Agus Subiyanto. "Benefactive Verbs and Causative Verbs in Madurese: Morphosyntactic Analysis." Linguistic, English Education and Art (LEEA) Journal 4, no. 1 (December 24, 2020): 88–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31539/leea.v4i1.1826.

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This study is aimed to analyze a morphological process in the marker of benefactive verbs and causative verbs construction of Madurese Language. The theory used in this study was of generative morphology and syntax. The object of this study was Madurese Language. The data collected in Madurese Language was from the native speakers of Madurese. The result of this research was the formation rules of benefactive verbs and causative verbs of Madurese Language by using word and paradigm approach. The results show that there were three kinds of affixation to produce the benefactive verbs. Affixation in the marker of benefactive verb was shown by prefixes a-, ma-, and n-, and suffix –aghi. Affixation in the marker of causative verb was shown by prefixes ma-. Madurese also use intransitive verb and also adjective as the root to construct benefactive verb and causative verb. Keyword: Benefactive Verbs, Causative Verbs, Generative Morphology, Madurese

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Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. "Indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic: A typological sketch." Studies in African Linguistics 42, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 34–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v42i1.107274.

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The aim of the present study is to propose, for the first time, a typology of the forms and functions related to the indirect object and benefactive predications in Chadic languages. Some languages have grammaticalized only the indirect object predication; others have grammaticalized the indirect object and the benefactive predication; and still other languages have not grammaticalized either of the predications, leaving the relevant semantic relations to be inferred from the coding of other predications. In the sample selected there are no languages that have grammaticalized the benefactive but not the indirect object predication. The study also demonstrates the consequences of the grammaticalization of indirect object and benefactive predications: A predication whose verb inherently indicates the presence of an indirect object or benefactive complement requires fewer formal means than a predication whose verb does not inherently imply the presence of an indirect object or benefactive complement. This generalization does not apply to a language that has not grammaticalized either type of predication. The theoretical approach in the present study differs significantly from the usual discussions of related phenomena subsumed under the terms of ‘ditransitive’, ‘three argument verbs’, and ‘datives'.

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Bohnhoff, Lee, and Mary Dalrymple. "Applicatives in Ya̧g Dii: Morphological and syntactic implications." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 39, no. 2 (November 6, 2018): 153–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2018-0012.

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Abstract Ya̧g Dii (Niger-Congo/Adamawa-Ubangi, Cameroon) has two applicative constructions: a benefactive/malefactive construction, and a comitative/instrumental (‘accompaniment’) construction. The benefactive/malefactive construction licenses the addition of an indirect object with a benefactive, malefactive, or other goal-like role. The construction is often marked by the verbal extension -D; notably, however, an indirect object with a benefactive/malefactive role can appear even if the applicative extension is absent, with a tendency for a benefactive reading to be associated with the presence of the affix, and a malefactive reading with the absence of the affix. The accompaniment applicative construction is always marked by the verbal extension -N, which attaches to an intransitive or transitive stem and marks the presence of an accompanier of the applied clause subject. Unlike the usual situation with applicatives, where the ‘applied’ argument bears a core argument role, the applied argument in the accompaniment applicative construction appears as an oblique dependent of the verb. We discuss the complicated verbal morphology used to express benefactive and comitative/instrumental applicatives, and the syntactic realization of the applied argument in each type.

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Solomkina, N. A. "Features of Monoclausality and Polyclausality in Japanese Benefactives: A Corpus Study." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 21, no. 10 (December 1, 2022): 110–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2022-21-10-110-125.

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Typological status of complex converb constructions in Japanese is not currently well-defined. Japanese language researchers have no common opinion regarding their syntactic and functional unity. In this article we use corpus data to study such constructions with auxiliary verbs yaru, ageru, kureru, kudasaru, morau and itadaku and reveal features of monoclausality and biclausality with them. In the first part of the article, we overview the preexisting research on this topic, and then we apply the tests of morphological and syntactic independency that can be validated using corpus data. To test morphological independency, we check if focus particles such as mo ‘too’ can be placed between the parts of benefactive construction. For syntactic independency we use such tests as replacing a main verb with soo suru ‘to do so’ and checking the implementation of locality condition for shika ‘except’ when the negation marker is added to a main verb or to an auxiliary. According to our data, parts of all the six types of Japanese benefactive constructions demonstrate morphological independency (except for contracted colloquial forms). As for their syntactic properties, benefactives demonstrate both monoclausality and biclausality features. However, the parallel with direct and indirect passive constructions that exists in preceding research does not find endorsement in our data.

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Khanina, Olesya, and Andrey Shluinsky. "A rare type of benefactive construction: Evidence from Enets." Linguistics 52, no. 6 (October 16, 2014): 1391–431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2014-0025.

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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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Lichtenberk, Frantisek. "The Possessive-Benefactive Connection." Oceanic Linguistics 41, no. 2 (2002): 439–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2002.0008.

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Kim, Lan. "Reconsideration of Korean Benefactive Expressions in Foreign Language Teaching Contexts." Korean Language in America 25, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 87–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/korelangamer.25.2.0087.

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ABSTRACT This article examines the presentations of the Korean benefactive expression -e/a cwuta in four Korean-as-a-foreign-language textbooks and provides an account for expressing the benefactive meaning by reviewing a wide range of data considered in the literature as well as the corpus made and available by the National Institute of the Korean Language. The results of the analysis of the corpus in the spoken Korean language suggest a reconsideration of the presentations of the benefactive form in the Korean language textbooks, because it is found that there is a gap between what is conveyed in the textbooks and real-life practice.

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Thieberger, Nick. "The Benefactive Construction in South Efate." Oceanic Linguistics 45, no. 2 (2006): 297–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2007.0010.

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Marten, Lutz, and Nancy C. Kula. "Benefactive and substitutive applicatives in Bemba." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 35, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2014-0001.

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Ge-Soon Moon. "On the Passivizability of Benefactive Ditransitives." Korean Journal of Linguistics 39, no. 2 (June 2014): 301–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18855/lisoko.2014.39.2.003.

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Oh, Eunjeong. "Recovery from first-language transfer: The second language acquisition of English double objects by Korean speakers." Second Language Research 26, no. 3 (July 2010): 407–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267658310365786.

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Previous studies on second language (L2) acquisition of English dative alternation by Korean speakers (Oh and Zubizarreta, 2003, 2006a, 2006b) have shown that the acquisition of English benefactive double object (DO) (e.g. John baked Mary a cake) lags behind that of its counterpart goal double object (e.g. John sent Mary the letter). This asymmetry was attributed to grammatical differences between English and Korean benefactive DOs; goal DOs in the two languages have similar grammatical properties. Given the negative first language (L1) influence attested in the acquisition of English DOs by Korean speakers, this article examines the recovery process from these negative effects of L1 transfer and the triggering factors in such a process by investigating L2 learners’ knowledge of semantic properties pertinent to English DOs, using an Acceptability Judgment task with contexts. The present study found that most advanced learners are indeed capable of acquiring semantic properties of both types of English DOs, restructuring their interlanguage grammar in such a way that both types of DOs denote prospective possession. This article suggests that acquisition of the semantics of goal DOs, possibly attributed to L1 transfer, bootstraps acquisition of the semantics of benefactive DOs, and that this generalization from goal DOs to benefactive DOs is made possible by the surface generalization hypothesis (Goldberg, 2002), which states that argument structure patterns sharing the surface forms should be analysed on their own as a class. Furthermore, this article argues that this recovery process can be interpreted as evidence of a tie between syntax and semantics: developing sensitivity to the semantics of English DOs is indispensable for acquiring the syntax of English DOs (compare Lardiere, 2000; Slabakova, 2006). On this view, learning a construction essentially means learning its associated semantics, and acquisition of the syntax of a construction is a consequence of acquisition of the semantics of the construction.

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Suhandano, NFN. "FOKUS BENEFAKTIF DAN INSTRUMENTAL DALAM KALIMAT IMPERATIF BAHASA JAWA." Widyaparwa 49, no. 1 (June 29, 2021): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/wdprw.v49i1.742.

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The focus or voice system is an important issue in the study of Austronesian languages. This paper discusses the benefactive and instrumental focus in the imperative sentences of Javanese, a member of the Austronesian language with the largest number of native speakers. Through this paper, it will be shown that benefactive and instrumental in Javanese imperative sentences can be present as elements of sentences that are focused or unfocused. When they are not focused, the two elements of the sentence are expressed in prepositional phrases (PP) with the preposition of kanggo for benefactive and the preposition of nganggo for instrumental. When they are focused, the benefactive and instrumental are expressed in noun phrases (NP) and the verbs take the suffix –(k)na. Their position in the sentence structure also differs when they are focused and when they are not. The existence of imperatives with a benefactive and instrumental focus indicates that Javanese is a language of multiple voice types and this is different from the focus in declarative sentences which place Javanese into a language type with a two-voice system, active and passive. It seems that the differences focus in the two types of sentences indicates that Javanese is in the process of changing from a multiple voice type language to a two voice type language.Sistem voice atau fokus merupakan isu penting dalam studi bahasa-bahasa Austronesia. Tulisan ini membicarakan fokus benefaktif dan instrumental dalam kalimat imperatif bahasa Jawa, anggota bahasa Austronesia yang jumlah penutur aslinya paling banyak. Melalui tulisan ini akan ditunjukkan bahwa benefaktif dan instrumental dalam kalimat imperatif bahasa Jawa dapat hadir sebagai unsur kalimat yang difokuskan maupun tidak difokuskan. Ketika tidak difokuskan, kedua unsur kalimat tersebut dinyatakan dalam frasa preposisional (FP) dengan preposisi kanggo untuk benefaktif dan preposisi nganggo untuk instrumental. Ketika difokuskan, benefaktif dan instrumental diekspresikan dalam frasa nomina dan verba kalimat mengambil sufiks –(k)na. Posisinya dalam struktur kalimat juga berbeda ketika difokuskan dan tidak difokuskan. Keberadaan imperatif dengan fokus benefaktif dan instrumental mengindikasikan bahwa bahasa Jawa termasuk tipe bahasa multiple voice dan hal ini berbeda dengan fokus dalam kalimat deklaratif yang menempatkan bahasa Jawa termasuk ke dalam tipe bahasa dengan sistem dua voice, aktif dan pasif. Tampaknya perbedaan fokus dalam kedua jenis kalimat mengindikasikan bahwa bahasa Jawa sedang dalam proses perubahan dari bahasa tipe multiple voice ke bahasa tipe dua voice.

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Kakouriotis, A. "On the Double Object Construction in English and Modern Greek." Studies in Language 19, no. 1 (January 1, 1995): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.19.1.02kak.

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Modern Greek, like English, has double object constructions of the type Ed gave Sue a rose; in Modern Greek, the recipient in this construction appears in the genitive case, but like an accusative object can correspond to a verbal clitic. In Modern Greek, the range of semantic roles (theta-roles) that can appear as subject is more restricted than in English, but the range of semantic roles that can appear as object (in the position of Sue) is broader than in English, encompassing in particular Source expressions (cf. */ borrowed John some money) and Benefactive expressions where the Patient is not itself intended as to the benefit of the Benefactive (cf. *Peter opened the old lady a door) — Modern Greek literal translations of both these examples are grammatical.

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González, Paz, and Martine Bruil. "The Ecuadorian Spanish benefactive and its inherent aspect." Spanish in Context 18, no. 3 (October 4, 2021): 459–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.19027.gon.

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Abstract The Spanish benefactive verbal periphrasis dar ‘give’ + gerund is unique to the Spanish spoken in Ecuador and it seems to have emerged in the historical Ecuadorian context of multilingualism. The analysis presented sheds light to the intricacies of the construction, taking into consideration the inherent aspect of the gerundial verb. Oral data was collected during two months of participant observation in Ecuador. The aspectual theoretical analysis of Verkuyl (1993), González (2003) and González and Verkuyl (2017) is applied to the data in order to determine the inherent aspectual value of the gerundial verb in the predications. The results show that there is an overwhelming use of terminative predications. Additionally, some predications that prima facie seem durative can be interpreted as terminative. This finding can be partially explained by particular linguistic phenomena only appearing in the Spanish in contact with Kichwa. Moreover, this study adds empirical proof of how relevant discourse is in aspectual representations.

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Park, So Young, and Do Hun Kim. "The Syntax of Korean Benefactive Verb cwuta ‘give’." Journal of Korea Linguistics 84 (December 31, 2017): 117–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15811/jkl.2017..84.004.

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Lee-Schoenfeld, Vera, and Nicholas Twiner. "German Passives and English Benefactives." Nordlyd 44, no. 1 (October 12, 2020): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/12.5210.

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In both English benefactive constructions (John baked Mary a cake) and German kriegen/bekommen-passives (Er kriegte einen Stift geschenkt ‘He got a pen gifted’), the theme argument is accusative-marked but has no way of getting structural accusative case. In English benefactive constructions, this is because the beneficiary argument intervenes between the voice head and the theme, and in German kriegen/bekommen-passives, it is because there is no active voice head. This paper proposes that, in both languages, the applicative head introducing the beneficiary/recipient (more generally, the affectee argument), comes with an extra case feature that can license case on the theme argument. In English, this non-canonical accusative case feature comes with the regular applicative head introducing the beneficiary argument. In contrast, in German, it comes with a defective applicative head which introduces the recipient but is unable to assign to it the inherent dative case that normally comes with the Affectee theta-role. The paper offers a unified analysis of English and German double object constructions and also of German werden (‘be’) and kriegen/bekommen (‘get’)-passives.

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Prihatini, Arti. "PERPINDAHAN FRASA NOMINA BENEFACTIVE KE ARGUMENT-POSITION DALAM KALIMAT PASIF BITRANSITIF PADA RAGAM BAHASA LISAN ANAK USIA PRASEKOLAH." KEMBARA: Jurnal Keilmuan Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya 4, no. 2 (October 18, 2018): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/kembara.vol4.no2.128-140.

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Penelitian ini bertujuan menelaah perpindahan frasa nomina (FN) benefactive ke Argument-Position (A-Position) pada kalimat pasif bitransitif tanpa delisi pada anak usia prasekolah. Pendekatan penelitian ini adalah kualitatif. Jenis penelitian ini adalah studi kasus deskriptif. Data penelitian ini adalah perpindahan FN ke A-Position pada kalimat pasif bitransitif tanpa delisi yang bersumber dari tuturan lisan anak usia prasekolah di Kelas B-Lion TK Laboratorium UM. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik perekaman dan catatan lapang. Analisis data terdiri atas tiga tahap, yaitu reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa anak usia prasekolah dapat memindahkan frasa nomina benefaktif ke argument-position dengan disertai penyesuaian berupa perubahan imbuhan verba aktif menjadi verba pasif yang berimbuhan di-. Anak juga mempertimbangkan kebernyawaan (animacy) dalam proses perpindahan frasa nomina benefactive dan dalam penyusunan urutan kata dalam kalimat hasil perpindahan tersebut. Perpindahan yang dilakukan tidak melanggar subjacency condition.

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Tenis, Horiana Ilyadim, Yoseph B. Kroon, and Johnson W. Haan. "Peran Semantis Argumen Klausa Verbal Bahasa Dawan Dialek Amanuban, Nusa Tenggara Timur." SASDAYA: Gadjah Mada Journal of Humanities 2, no. 2 (June 24, 2018): 369. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/sasdayajournal.36449.

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This research entitled “The Role of Semantic Argument on Verbal Clauses of Dawan Dialect Amanuban”. The Problems discussed in this research are (a) How is the basic structure of verbal clause of Dawan Dialect Amanuban? (b) What role does the semantic argument contain in the verbal clause of Dawan Dialect Amanuban? The study aims to (a) Describe and analyze the structure of the verbal clause argument of Dawan Dialect Amanuban, (b) Identify and analyze the role of semantic argument verbal clause of Dawan Dialect Amanuban. The Method used is qualitative descriptive method and macro perceived theory (Macro rules). Based on this theory, the analysis of the research results shows that the basic structure of the BDDA verbal clause is Subject-Predicate-Object (SPO) and Subject-Predicate (SP) in the intransitive clause. Percent macro actors are realized through the thematic role of locative influencing agents, theme, instrumental, and benefactive. The role of the macro underground is realized through the thematic, benefactive, instrument, theme, locative, and influence roles.

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TAKAMI, KEN-ICHI. "A SEMANTIC CONSTRAINT ON THE BENEFACTIVE DOUBLE OBJECT CONSTRUCTION." ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 20, no. 1 (2003): 197–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.20.197.

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Tomioka, Satoshi, and Lan Kim. "The give-type benefactive constructions in Korean and Japanese." Journal of East Asian Linguistics 26, no. 3 (July 27, 2017): 233–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-017-9158-9.

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Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. "The intertwining of differentiation and attraction as exemplified by the history of recipient transfer and benefactive alternations." Cognitive Linguistics 31, no. 4 (November 26, 2020): 549–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0042.

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AbstractDe Smet et al. (2018) propose that when functionally similar constructions come to overlap, analogical attraction may occur. So may differentiation, but this process involves attraction to other subnetworks and is both “accidental” and “exceptional”. I argue that differentiation plays a considerably more significant role than De Smet et al. allow. My case study is the development of the dative and benefactive alternations. The rise of the dative alternation (e.g., “gave the Saxons land” ∼ “gave land to the Saxons”) has been shown to occur in later Middle English between 1400 and 1500 (Zehentner 2018). Building on Zehentner and Traugott (2020), the rise of the benefactive alternation (e.g., “build her a house” ∼ “build a house for her”) in Early Modern English c1650 is analyzed from a historical constructionalist perspective and compared with the rise of the dative alternation. The histories of the alternations exemplify the rise of functionally similar constructions that overlap, and show that differentiation from each other plays as large a role as attraction. Both attraction and differentiation occur at several levels of abstraction: verb-specific constructions, schemas and larger systemic changes.

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GERWIN, JOHANNA. "Give it me!: pronominal ditransitives in English dialects." English Language and Linguistics 17, no. 3 (October 21, 2013): 445–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674313000117.

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Constructions involving a ditransitive verb, a direct theme object, and an indirect recipient object have been extensively studied – especially in the contexts of the ‘dative’ and the ‘benefactive alternations’, i.e. the alternations between a double-object construction (DOC) (e.g. She gave him a book) and a corresponding prepositional construction (PREP) either with to (e.g. She gave a book to him) or with for (e.g. She bought a book for him). The present study focuses on a ditransitive phenomenon which occurs in British dialects: when both objects are pronouns, three variants of encoding are possible: DOC (e.g. Give me it!), PREP (e.g. Give it to me!) and the alternative double-object construction (altDOC) (e.g. Give it me!). The regional distribution and diachronic development of the three constructions are traced using two corpora containing regional speech: the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED)1 and the online version of the British National Corpus (BNCweb). In concentrating on a dialect phenomenon, in taking language-external determinants of the ‘dative/benefactive alternation’ into consideration, and in investigating these empirically, the present study takes a novel approach to the much-discussed topic of ditransitives in English.

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Amberber, Mengistu. "The Unergative-Unaccusative Distinction and the Benefactive Applicative in Amharic." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 23, no. 2 (September 21, 1997): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v23i2.1314.

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Margetts, Anna. "From Implicature to Construction: Emergence of a Benefactive Construction in Oceanic." Oceanic Linguistics 43, no. 2 (2004): 445–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ol.2005.0009.

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Endo, Tomoko. "The Japanese benefactive -te ageru construction in family and adult interactions." Journal of Pragmatics 172 (January 2021): 239–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.11.011.

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Guerrero Medina, Pilar. "Meaning construction and motivation in the English benefactive double object construction." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18, no. 1 (August 17, 2020): 94–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00052.gue.

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Abstract This paper explores the interaction between verbal and constructional semantics in the benefactive double object construction in English. My main aim is to disentangle the semantics of the construction exploring the constructional potential of the main alternating verb classes, i.e., verbs of “obtaining”, “creation” and “preparing” (Levin, 1993), and spelling out the cognitive principles that motivate these and other extended uses as cases of lexical-constructional subsumption within the framework of the Lexical Constructional Model (cf. Galera Masegosa & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2012; Ruiz de Mendoza, 2013). Rather than advocating a polysemous analysis of the ditransitive, as proposed by Goldberg (1992, 1995), the position I take here is that ditransitives with beneficiary arguments and ditransitives with prototypical recipient arguments instantiate two different subconstructions which cannot be treated under the same general rubric, in spite of their “shared surface form” (Goldberg, 2002, p. 330).

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Song, Jae Jung. "The History of Micronesian Possessive Classifiers and Benefactive Marking in Oceanic Languages." Oceanic Linguistics 36, no. 1 (June 1997): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3623070.

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Tungseth, Mai. "Interactions of particles, adjectival resultatives and benefactive double object constructions in Norwegian." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 30, no. 2 (December 2007): 209–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s033258650700176x.

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In this paper, I take a closer look at a set of observations concerning word order and co-occurrence restrictions on verb-particle constructions, benefactive double object constructions and resultative constructions in Norwegian. While a particle can co-occur with both a beneficiary DP and a resultative AP, beneficiary DPs and resultatives cannot co-occur at all. I give an analysis in terms of the system proposed in Ramchand (2006), where I argue that the co-occurrence restrictions follow from the syntactic structure assumed together with independent properties of adjectival resultative constructions and verb-particle constructions.

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Radetzky, Paula Kadose, and Tomoko Yamashita Smith. "A Unified Account of the Japanese Causative, Moraw-Benefactive, and Passive Constructions." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 23, no. 1 (September 17, 1997): 290. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v23i1.1255.

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Basilico, David. "Particle verbs and benefactive double objects in English: high and low attachments." Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 26, no. 4 (October 28, 2008): 731–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-008-9057-x.

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Yanti, NFN, Tim McKinnon, Peter Cole, and Gabriella Hermon. "THE TYPOLOGY OF APPLICATIVE/CAUSATIVE MARKING IN TAPUS." Linguistik Indonesia 39, no. 1 (March 3, 2021): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/li.v39i1.188.

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This paper constitutes an initial examination of the applicative/causative suffix -ge in Tapus, a divergent traditional Minangkabau variety spoken in rural Western Sumatra. Our aim is to show that the similarities and divergences from Standard Indonesian of traditional rural varieties provides insight into the properties of “Indonesian-type” languages in general. The distribution of applicatives/causatives in Tapus is interesting for several reasons. First, applicative/causative suffixes in Indonesian-type languages are well-known for the use of the same morphology for a variety of purposes. The fact that a single form is used for these different functions raises the question of whether the applicative/causative morphemes are two (or more) distinct morphemes or whether the form has a unitary linguistic function. We will show that the unitary analysis for causative and benefactive uses of the applicative/causative suffix cannot account for the data in Tapus. Another area of interest with regard to this suffix relates to constraints on movement. We show that the Extreme Locality Hypothesis cannot account for the Tapus data based on the interaction between the applicative/causative suffix and information question formation/relativization. Finally, we demonstrate that Pylkkänen’s typology of applicatives makes incorrect predictions with respect to the interpretations available for benefactives in Tapus and other Indonesian-type languages, showing the necessity for an expanded taxonomy of applicative forms. Our general conclusion is that the detailed examination of grammatical constructions in divergent Malayic varieties leads to new and surprising insights into the grammatical profile of Indonesian-type languages.

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Olbertz, Hella. "Dar + gerund in Ecuadorian Highland Spanish." Spanish in Context 5, no. 1 (June 6, 2008): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.5.1.06olb.

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The benefactive construction dar + gerund is used in the North Andean region only and is unknown elsewhere in the Spanish-speaking world. Based on the analysis of spontaneous data from Ecuadorian Highland Spanish, this paper provides a linguististic description of dar + gerund and of the social and pragmatic conditions of its use. Departing from this description, I explain that the construction originates through contact with Ecuadorian Quechua. It is shown that the geographical restriction of the use of dar + gerund is directly related to the specific characteristics of Ecuadorian Quechua.

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Peng, Guozhen, and Hilary Chappell. "Ya33 ‘give’ as a valency increaser in Jinghpo nuclear serialization." Studies in Language 35, no. 1 (July 21, 2011): 128–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.35.1.05pen.

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This paper analyzes serial verb constructions in Jinghpo formed by ya33 ‘give’, arguing that it has the function of a valency–increasing device in nuclear serialization: The use of ya33 allows the licensing of an additional beneficiary argument as a core argument to the lexical verb. In a new twist, however, on the evolution of give verbs, we demonstrate that the benefactive usage is extended to malefactive semantics in a distinct, derived structure, conditioned via the expression of possession, a type of malefactive that is not well-documented in current literature on this domain. Furthermore, the existence of two distinct constructions for the benefactive and the malefactive in Jinghpo conforms to Radetzky & Smith’s claim (2010: 116) that this is an areal feature comprising the Indian subcontinent, Southeast and East Asia, and thus contrasts strongly with the conflation of both types of construction in many European languages. Finally, we propose that the nuclear type of serialization, integral to the typological profile of Jinghpo, a SOV language, is a determining factor in the reanalysis of ya33. This feature is subsequently invoked to explain why the malefactive usage of ya33 constitutes a separate development from the well-attested pathway for give verbs leading to permissive causative verbs and adversative passive markers, which, while blocked in Jinghpo, is commonly found in many other East and Southeast Asian languages with core serialization. The present analysis is based on the variety of Jinghpo spoken in Luxi County, Yunnan Province, China, using, in the main, natural discourse data collected in the field.

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Ngonyani, Deo. "Properties of applied objects in Kiswahili and Kindendeule." Studies in African Linguistics 27, no. 1 (June 1, 1998): 68–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v27i1.107388.

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This paper examines objects which are licensed by the applicative affix in the Bantu languages of Kindendeule and Kiswahili. The data show that all verbs can take the applicative suffix deriving transitive verbs from intransitive verbs, and ditransitive verbs from transitive verbs. The applied objects can be interpreted as beneficiary, maleficiary, goal, instrument, reason, motive, ingredient, location, or theme. Only the agent role cannot be licensed by the applicative suffix. On the basis of object order, object marking, passivization, reciprocalization and reflexivization, the objects are classified into: (a) the benefactive type, (b) instrumental type, and (c) locative type.

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모해연. "A Comparative Study of the Grammaticalization of Benefactive Verbs in Chinese and Korean." Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China ll, no. 17 (August 2008): 23–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.16874/jslckc.2008..17.002.

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Dian Ratna Aryani, Made. "PERAN SEMANTIS DALAM KONSTRUKSI DATIF BAHASA JEPANG." Linguistika: Buletin Ilmiah Program Magister Linguistik Universitas Udayana 26, no. 1 (March 31, 2019): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ling.2019.v26.i01.p03.

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This study aims to describe the verbs that give rise to dative construction and the semantic roles that arise in dative construction in Japanese sentence structure, which includes the agentif role, benefactive role, experience role, and objective role. The theory used in this study is the theory of Givon (2001), Cook's Case Grammar Theory (1979), and the theory of inheritance from Nitta (1991). Data sources are taken from the Japanese corpus, www.kotonoha.gr.jp/shonagon/ This research shows Japanese language is a language marked or a file. The case in Japanese here is closely related to the system of inheritance in the Japanese sentence structure. The marker is attached after noun (noun). The markers or particles that state direct objects are accusative markers 'o' and markers datif 'ni' as markers of indirect objects. The verb found in this study is tatakareta 'has been tapped', yonde kureta 'has read', tooraseta 'has (caused) passed', and oboeta 'has remembered' which can bring up multiple objects, namely the order of direct objects and indirect objects. The results of this study, (1) show the verbs that allow the emergence of multiple objects, especially indirect objects (IO) in the construction of Japanese, are transitive verbs or action verbs and intransitive verbs in the form of idou doushi 'moving verbs' are causative in Japanese language {~ exciting / ~ saseru} means to make / cause, and (2) the semantic roles that arise in the dative construction of Japanese sentence structures (BJ) include (a) agentive roles, (b) benefactive roles, (c) experience roles, and (c) objective roles. Semantically the verbs that give rise to the semantic role are keizoku doushi 'continuous verbs' and shunkan doushi 'pungtual verbs'.

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Nordlinger, Rachel. "From body part to applicative: Encoding ‘source’ in Murrinhpatha." Linguistic Typology 23, no. 3 (November 26, 2019): 401–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2019-0023.

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Abstract Murrinhpatha (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia) is typologically unusual in having a single applicative construction with the semantics of source/malefactive, but never benefactive. In this paper I discuss the development of this applicative from an incorporated body part meaning ‘hand’. I show that the applicative developed from a reanalysis of the external possession construction; and that the applicative morphology developed from the incorporated body part, rather than from a verbal or adpositional source. This contributes to our understanding of the typology of applicative constructions and also highlights the value in exploring the complex verbal constructions of polysynthetic languages to inform our understanding of grammaticalisation possibilities.

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Čižik-Prokaševa, Veslava. "A tentative semantic map of depictives and other secondary participant-oriented predicates in the Lithuanian language." Lietuvių kalba, no. 5 (December 28, 2011): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2011.22795.

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The article sets out to analyse the similarities and differences of free secondary predicates (predicative adjuncts) in the Lithuanian language and secondary predicates in other languages. The study has been carried out relying on the universal semantic map for participant-oriented modifiers drawn by N. P. Himmelmann and E. Schultze-Berndt (2005) and on the basis of the elements of its composition. The analysis has demonstrated that the majority of Lithuanian language modifiers which have usually been analysed as circumstantials, i.e. as event-oriented modifiers, are in fact also participant-oriented. Their semantic link with the participant is reflected not only by the secondary predicates of physical, mental or emotional condition, function, role, association, collective or life stage but also by those of manner, concomitance, distributivity, time and even location and atmospheric condition. As a result, a tentative semantic map of participant-oriented modifiers in the Lithuanian language has been composed and it is provided in the article. This map is different from the universal map of Himmelmann and Schultze-Berndt because of the specificity of the Lithuanian language (secondary predicates of time, collective, distributivity, order, frequency and emphatic pronoun in the map of the Lithuanian language have fallen into different places; the denotation of location of event has been eliminated) and because of different theoretical principles selected for this study (the denotations of comparison and benefactive / malefactive are eliminated, circumstantial secondary predicates are added). With respect to the possible denotations of free secondary predicates in different languages of the word as proposed by Himmelmann and Schultze-Berndt, the Lithuanian language only lacks those of comparison, benefactive / malefactive and location of event; however, it is possible to distinguish additional categories of causal, temporal, conditional and concessive circumstantials. On the basis of the investigation, the following tentative semantic map of participant-oriented modifiers in the Lithuanian language has been drawn.

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Doo-Won Lee. "English Counterparts of Causative Verb Cwu and Benefactive Suffix Verb (a/e) Cwu Constructions." Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature 57, no. 2 (June 2015): 267–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.18853/jjell.2015.57.2.013.

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Basid, Abdul, Neng Sumiyati, Nadya Nafisah, and Ely Fauziyah. "FILLMORE'S CASE GRAMMAR ANALYSIS OF 'JINNIYAT JABAL KUMANG' FILM DIALOGUES." Leksema: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 7, no. 1 (July 25, 2022): 73–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/ljbs.v7i1.5021.

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This study aimed to describe the modalities and propositions in the dialogues of the film entitled Jinniyāt Jabal Kumang based on case grammar theory from Charles J. Fillmore. This is a literary research that applied descriptive-qualitative method. The result of this study showed that from the dialogues there were found three types of time modalities, namely past, present and future; two forms of adverbial modality, i.e.: quantitative and frequency; an a negation modality. Meanwhile, the types of propositions found were the agentive, objective, source, goal, instrument, time, accompanying, benefactive, and locative cases. From the findings, it can be concluded that the case grammar analysis is applicable to Arabic sentence structure similar that of English and Indonesian language.

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Ezenwafor, Chikelu Ihunanya. "Serial Verb Construction in Etulo." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 9 (September 1, 2019): 1221. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0909.20.

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In languages, different criteria are often adopted in the classification of the verb category many of which are language specific or universal. Etulo makes a distinction between simple and complex predicates. This work discusses serial verb construction (SVC) as a type of complex predicate using the typological criteria proposed in Aikhenvald (2006). Etulo SVCs have diverse semantic and grammatical functions. They express benefactive, instrumental, comparative meaning, as well as prepositional and adverbial notions indicating direction using motion verbs. Different types of serial verb constructions (SVCs) are established: the symmetric vs asymmetric type, contiguous vs non-contiguous, and the optional vs obligatory type. The SVC is further distinguished from a similar multi-verb construction known as the consecutive construction.

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Magnusson, Simon. "Constructing young citizens’ deontic authority in participatory democracy meetings." Discourse & Communication 14, no. 6 (July 9, 2020): 600–618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481320939704.

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Young citizens are increasingly being invited to take part in participatory democracy meetings as joint decision-making has grown popular in public administration. The backbone of participatory democracy is that some authority is granted to the citizenry and by drawing on video data (38 hours) from a year-long participatory project, this conversation analytic study shows that the adolescents are instructed to a deontic role rooted in epistemics, benefactive considerations, as well as temporal aspects relating to future citizenship and hope. The institutional representatives perform actions that determine how the adolescents should, in their turn, perform actions of influence. In this way, authority is ascribed through an ambivalent configuration in which compliance with the directives is supposed to establish a strengthened deontic position.

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Jaeyong Kwak. "The Derivational Condition of Dative Clitic of the Benefactive Applicative Periphrase in Ecuadorian Highland Spanish." Korean Journal of Hispanic Studies 9, no. 2 (November 2016): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18217/kjhs.9.2.201611.1.

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Lee, Doo-Won. "A Syntactic Approach of the Causative Verb Cwu and Benefactive Suffix Verb (a/e) Cwu." Studies in Modern Grammar 2015, no. 85 (September 30, 2015): 45–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.14342/smog.2015.85.45.

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Sujaya, Nyoman, I. Nyoman Kardana, Ketut Artawa, and Made Sri Satyawati. "The Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Suffix -in in Balinese." International Linguistics Research 2, no. 4 (December 9, 2019): p14. http://dx.doi.org/10.30560/ilr.v2n4p14.

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This paper discusses the syntactic and semantic analysis of Balinese suffix -in. It is to determine its distribution in sentence construction. This study uses the RRG theory by Van Valin and Randy (1999) supported by the data taken from Balinese articles issued in the Bali Orti of Bali Post newspapers. The result of the analysis shows that as a transitivizing suffix, Balinese suffix -in can be added to nominal, adjectival, adverbial, intransitive and transitive bases. Syntactically, -in can be used in stative, transitive, imperative, passive constructions. The word orders assigned by the suffix -in require different morphology of the verbs. Semantically, the derived verbs with -in refer to the activities treating object as static target of action. As an applicative suffix, -in expresses causative, benefactive, source or locative meaning.

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Mathangwane, Joyce T., and E. Kweku Osam. "Grammatical relations in Ikalanga." Studies in African Linguistics 35, no. 2 (June 15, 2006): 189–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v35i2.107308.

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Although facts about grammatical relations in many Bantu languages have been established since the early 1970s, there are still languages in this family which have not benefited from such studies. One of these is Ikalanga, spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe. This paper examines the core grammatical relations of Ikalanga, exploring its typological status in terms of double object constructions. In prototypical ditransitive constructions, the Recipient NP has all of the properties of Direct Object, whereas the Theme NP has only some of those features. The conclusion is that Ikalanga is an intermediate language if object symmetricity is scalar. However, it is shown that in marked applicative constructions where the Benefactive is non-human and the Theme is human, there is reason to argue for 'split direct-objecthood', reflecting the impact of animacy in the assignment of direct objecthood.

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