Frontmatter -- Purpose and Aim of the Series -- Contents -- Part I: General chapters -- 1 Applicative constructions: An introductory overview -- 2 Questionnaire on applicative constructions -- 3 Languages examined or referred to in the present book -- Part II: Case studies -- Individual languages -- 4 Hul'q'umi'num' Salish applicative constructions -- 5 Applicatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac -- 6 Applicatives in Toba/Qom (Guaykuruan) -- 7 The applicative constructions of Mapudungun -- 8 Applicative constructions and non-applicative uses of applicative morphology in Tswana (Bantu) -- 9 Applicativization in Amharic -- 10 Applicative constructions in Standard Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) -- Areal overviews -- 11 Contact-induced diffusion of applicatives in northwestern Amazonia? -- 12 Applicatives in Papuan languages -- 13 Applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages -- 14 Applicativizing preverbs in selected European languages -- Genealogical overviews -- 15 Applicatives in Northern Uto-Aztecan languages -- 16 Applicative constructions in Uto-Aztecan languages from Northwestern Mexico -- 17 Applicative constructions in the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan (Eskimo-Aleut) languages -- 18 Applicatives across Algonquian -- 19 Applicative constructions in Mayan languages: An overview with special focus on Chontal -- 20 Applicative constructions in two Otomanguean families: Otomi and Zapotec -- 21 The polyfunctional applicative *-ɪd in Bantu languages -- 22 B-applicatives and I-applicatives in Atlantic languages (Niger-Congo) -- 23 Nilotic applicatives -- 24 Applicative constructions in Cushitic -- 25 Applicative constructions in the Northwest Caucasian languages -- 26 Applicative constructions in Kartvelian -- 27 Applicative derivations in Kiranti -- 28 Applicative constructions in languages of western Indonesia -- Part III: Theoretical/Comparative outlook -- 29 Understanding applicatives -- 30 Applicatives cross-linguistically: Features and distribution -- 31 Applicative and related constructions: Results and perspectives -- Language index -- Subject index