Argument structure and the typology of causatives in Kinyarwanda : explaining the causative-instrumental syncretism

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dc.contributor.advisorBeavers, John T.
dc.creatorJerro, Kyle Josephen
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-22T21:15:01Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:59:18Z
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:59:18Z
dc.date.issued2013-12en
dc.date.submittedDecember 2013en
dc.date.updated2014-04-22T21:15:02Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractIn the Bantu language Kinyarwanda, the morpheme –ish can be used to mark both causation and the instrumental applicative. This report pro- poses an explanation for this causative-instrumental syncretism, arguing that both causation and the introduction of an instrument are—at their core—two outgrowths of the same semantic notion. Fitting with other morphological causatives in Bantu, the causative use of –ish patterns as a lexical causative marker. The analysis presented here captures the lex- ical nature of the causative use of the morpheme by arguing that the new causal link is added sub-lexically, situating Kinyarwanda into a cross- linguistic typology of morphological causatives.en
dc.description.departmentLinguisticsen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/24090en
dc.subjectArgument structureen
dc.subjectLexical semanticsen
dc.subjectBantu languagesen
dc.subjectCausationen
dc.subjectApplicativesen
dc.subjectKinyarwandaen
dc.titleArgument structure and the typology of causatives in Kinyarwanda : explaining the causative-instrumental syncretismen
dc.typeThesisen

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