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Review of Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological Perspectives and Case Studies

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  • The juxtaposition of the terms BENEFACTIVE and MALEFACTIVE in the title of this volume is natural since they are conceptually well paired; at the same time it is thought-provoking, as we are much more accustomed to seeing the term benefactive in grammars than malefactive. In their introductory chapter, editors Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga provide a succinct and helpful overview of the subject matter of this most interesting volume, covering the coding of benefactives and malefactives, the semantic variability in their interpretation, and the kinds of polysemy that these meanings enter into.

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    2011
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    Review
  • DOI
    https://doi.org/10.7939/R3959CD92
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    © 2011 John Newman. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.
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    • Newman, J, 2011. Review of Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological Perspectives and Case Studies, ed. by Fernando Zúñiga & Seppo Kittilä. Language, 87(3), 671-674.