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The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically [PDF]
, 2008 The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +2 more
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Cross-linguistic sources of anticausative markers
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 The (anti)causative alternation, that is, the alternation whereby languages contrast intransitive verbs expressing spontaneous events with transitive ones expressing externally caused events, has been the object of extensive language-specific and cross ...
Guglielmo Inglese
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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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Getting the -ik: An anticausative structure in Kirundi
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 2023 This paper discusses the morpheme -ik in the Bantu language Kirundi (JD62). Dom et al. (2018) put forth a Proto-Bantu 'neuter middle marker' following Kemmer's (1993) 'middle domain', from which a Kirundi -ik can clearly be derived.
Chase Boles
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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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The noncausal/causal alternation in Swahili
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Haspelmath (1993) investigates types of noncausal/causal alternation and examines 31 verb pairs in 21 languages, including Swahili, a Bantu language spoken in East Africa.
Nobuko Yoneda
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On noncausal/causal alternations in Tima (Nuba Mountains, Sudan)
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Tima, a language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, uses three derivation markers (with various allomorphs) to either increase or decrease the valency of the verb. Middle voice and antipassive marking are used to reduce the valency. Causative marking
Gertrud Schneider-Blum
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