Article published In: Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation
Edited by Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman
[Linguistic Variation 23:1] 2023
► pp. 190–216
Partitive sharing – How to help in Kinande
Published online: 7 February 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.21001.iri
https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.21001.iri
Abstract
This paper examines a structure in the Bantu language Kinande, namely the so-called sociative causative, where partitive morphology occurs on a nominal without giving the nominal an NP-related partitive interpretation. We argue that the source of the partitivity in this construction lies in the co-extensiveness relation (incrementality relation) between the causing and the caused subevent. Partitive morphology on the nominal signals obligatory licensing of the theme so that it can be properly mapped to the co-extensive subevents.
Keywords: Bantu, partitivity, sociative causative, incrementality, locative
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Typology of causation: Sociative causatives and helping in Kinande
- 3.Sociative causatives in Kinande: Morphological and syntactic properties
- 3.1The verbal morphology of sociative causatives
- 3.2The encoding of arguments in sociative causatives
- 3.3Syntactic properties of sociative causatives in Kinande
- 4.Theoretical account
- 5.Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Abbreviations
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