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LEXICALIZATION IN MORPHOLOGY: A CASE STUDY OF THE ANTICAUSATIVE PREFIX IN TAQBAYLIT BERBER [PDF]

Studii de gramatică contrastivă
What makes lexicalization an intriguing topic in morphology? It is not so much the semantic mismatch between a base and its ‘derived’ form, but the question of how lexicalization is underlyingly represented.
Amazigh Bedar
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Stylistic applicatives: a lens into the nature of anticausative SE

Glossa
This paper examines an understudied syntactic phenomenon in Chilean Spanish: stylistic applicatives. This construction involves the appearance of the form LE alongside dative clitics in marked anticausative contexts. The pattern displays several puzzling
Carlos Muñoz Pérez
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The oblique anticausative in Lithuanian

Baltistica, 2014
This article examines Lithuanian structures with accusative functioning as a subject. It pursues the idea that this accusative is of old origin. This hypothesis is based on a detailed comparison with Old Icelandic, revealing striking similarities within ...
Valgerður Bjarnadóttir
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Drifting between passive and anticausative. True and alleged accent shifts in the history of Vedic-ya-presents

Journal of Language Relationship, 2011
Leonid Kulikov
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The Distribution and Function of Virtual Reflexive Constructions in English

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2022
This paper sheds new light on the distributional and functional properties of virtual reflexive constructions (VRCs) in English (e.g., This problem solves ITSELF).
Masaki Yasuhara
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Entre passif et anticausatif : étude des formes itCaCaC en arabe du Caire

Lidil, 2021
This study deals with the interpretations received by verbs formed on the t‑I pattern in Cairo Arabic, passive and anticausative interpretations. First, we note on the one hand that verbs of t‑I form characterized by an inherent transitivity receive only
Julie Haslé
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Voice Markers in Septuagint Greek in the Light of Hebrew Interference: A Corpus‐Based Study on the Aorist System of the Book of Genesis*

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 169-202, July 2023., 2023
Abstract In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so‐called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis‐à‐vis middle aorist ...
Eystein Dahl, Liana Tronci
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A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire–infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan

Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 183-222, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is “transitive.” We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree.
Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
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Bribri media tantum verbs and the rise of labile syntax

Linguistics, 2022
In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix -r derives passive voice from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well as anticausative verbs from nominal and adjectival roots.
Pacchiarotti Sara, Kulikov Leonid
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Voice Syncretism Crosslinguistically: The View from Minimalism

Philosophies, 2022
Voice syncretism is widely attested crosslinguistically. In this paper, we discuss three different types of Voice syncretism, under which the same morpheme participates in different configurations.
Despina Oikonomou, Artemis Alexiadou
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