Roman Viktorovich Tarasov,
Department of Applied and Experimental Linguistics, Leo Tolstoy Higher School of Russian Philology and Culture, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Russia
This study is dedicated to typology of tropative and apparetive verbs in terms of their valence structure and polysemy in both natural and constructed languages. Existing papers on this topic are dedicated to tropative in different categories of languages with some of them also having to do with apparetive in constructed languages. However, all of those papers examined these meanings from a morphological or syntactic point of view, leaving the aspects of lexical and grammatical semantics aside. In the current research, both most common and unexpected lexical sources of polysemic tropative/apparetive verbs, as well as sources of polysemic tropative affixes are discussed, two groups of verbs (incorporating and non-incorporating) are outlined. The second matter under discussion is valency of tropative and apparetive verbs, i.e. their argument structure. In this part, patterns of tropative/apparetive argument marking in different case systems are discussed, which has not been done previously in linguistic research either. For example, it is explained how the relation between the subject (the participant expressing an opinion) and the characteristic (the content of the subject’s opinion) marking in tropative constructions can affect the relation between object (the participant which is thought of) and characteristic marking.ъъ
Keywords: Tropative, Apparetive, Polysemy, Valence Structure, Argument Marking
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The 11th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2026, Ahwaz.
