By Doris L. Payne (Ed.), Immanuel Barshi (Ed.)
Exterior ownership structures (EPCs) are present in approximately all elements of the realm and throughout largely divergent language households. The data-rich papers during this first-ever quantity on EPCs record their typological variability, discover diachronic purposes for diversifications, and examine their features and theoretical ramifications. EPCs code the possessor as a center grammatical relation of the verb and in a constituent break free that which incorporates the possessed merchandise. although EPCs show ownership, they achieve this with no the mandatory involvement of a possessive predicate similar to “have” or “own”. in lots of instances, EPCs seem to “break the principles” approximately what percentage arguments a verb of a given valence could have. They hence represent an incredible proscribing case for comparing theories of the connection among verbal argument constitution and syntactic clause constitution. in addition they elevate middle questions on intersections between verbal valence, cognitive occasion construal, voice, and language processing.
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Croft goes on to say that derived causative and applicative forms “appear to be related to voice functions” (94). Similarly, EPCs take more complex participant situations (involving a possessor), and due to the speaker’s construal of the possessor as the primary affected endpoint, express the possessor as object (whether primary object, direct object, or indirect object) or as stative subject. Thus, EPCs belong to the domain of voice in the same extended sense as do causatives and applicatives.
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