Abstract Well attested diachronic sources for applicative markers are adpositions and verbs. Nominal sources are regarded as dubious, although nouns have been argued to have developed into applicatives in some languages (such as Murrinhpatha, in Nordlinger (this issue). In this paper, I argue for a previously unreported source for applicatives, by presenting the possible applicative function of the classifiers of Mojeño Trinitario (Arawak, Bolivia), based on a large corpus of texts collected in the field. While classifiers within verbs derive prototypical applicative constructions, they show unusual properties as applicatives, namely in their semantics. The applicative markers are selected according to the physical properties of the referent of the applied object, rather than its semantic role within the sentence. And although most of the classifiers show no similarity to free nominal lexemes in the present state of the language, the classifiers found in Mojeño Trinitario verbs are very likely derived historically from nominal incorporation, a typical path of development. Mojeño Trinitario data offer new evidence for the possibility of elements derived from nouns to be reanalyzed as morphological applicative markers.

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从MojeñoTrinitario的分类器到应用语：应用语标记的新来源

摘要公认的适用标记的历时来源是介词和动词。名词来源被认为是可疑的，尽管有人认为名词已发展成某些语言中的应用语（例如，Nordlinger的Murrinhpatha（本期））。在本文中，我通过提出可能的说法来寻求以前未报道的应用语源MojeñoTrinitario（玻利维亚阿拉瓦克）的分类词的应用功能，基于领域中收集的大量文本；动词中的分类器派生出典型的应用构造，但它们却表现出与应用无关的性质，即在语义上。根据所应用对象所指对象的物理属性，而不是根据其在句子中的语义作用来选择。而且尽管大多数分类器在当前语言状态下都与自由的名词词组没有相似之处，但MojeñoTrinitario动词中发现的分类器很可能历史上是从名义合并中获得的，这是典型的发展道路。MojeñoTrinitario的数据提供了新的证据，证明可能会将源自名词的元素重新分析为形态学应用标记。