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Bhuvana Narasimhan, Sonja Eisenbei, Penelope Brown

“Two's company, more is a crowd”: the linguistic encoding of multiple-participant events

This issue investigates the linguistic encoding of events with three or more participants from the perspectives of language typology and acquisition. Such “multiple-participant events” include (but are not limited to) any scenario involving at least three participants, typically encoded using transactional verbs like ‘give’ and ‘show’, placement verbs like ‘put’, and benefactive and applicative constructions like ‘do (something for someone)’, among others. There is considerable crosslinguistic and withinlanguage variation in how the participants (the Agent, Causer, Theme, Goal, Recipient, or Experiencer) and the subevents involved in multipleparticipant situations are encoded, both at the lexical and the constructional levels.

Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0024-3949
Volume: 45, 05/2007
Pages: 383 - 392

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