Sascha Völlmin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sascha Völlmin plays a role.

Article

Völlmin, Sascha 2010 Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage)Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 317–330 | Article
Gumer (West-Gurage, South Ethiosemitic) has three suffixes to mark objects on the verb: ‘primary object’, ‘benefactive’, ‘malefactive/locative/instrumental’. BEN and MAL can occur with every verb to express in a rather broad sense that the event is ‘to one’s benefit’ or ‘to one’s detriment’. BEN… read more