The middle as a voice category in Bantu : setting the stage for further research [PDF]
, 2018 The main goal of our paper is to give a first, general description of middle voice in Bantu. As will be shown, this language group has a set of verbal derivational morphemes that challenges some of the concepts related to the middle domain. First of all,
Bostoen, Koen +2 more
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Lithuanian anticausative verb triads: form, semantics and functions
Valoda nozīme un forma / Language Meaning and Form, 2018 In Lithuanian, a considerable number of infixed/sta-presents, causal verbs (basic or with the suffix -(d)inti/-(d)yti), and middle marked verbs form the so-called verb triads (cf. Ambrazas 1997, 231; see also Geniušienė 1987). Functionally these triads are not homogeneous because the first and the third members may be either synonyms or not, depending ...
Giedrė Junčytė
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Basic Characteristics and Aspectual Properties of Croatian ObjExp Verbs
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2021 This paper discusses the basic characteristics of ObjExp verbs in Croatian (thematic roles, argument structure, anticausative variant, aspect of the verb), with special attention paid to the aspectual properties of such verbs.
Matea Birtić, Ivana Brač
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On how 'middle' plus 'associative/reciprocal' became 'passive' in the Bantu A70 languages [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we show that the Bantu A70 languages did not preserve the passive morpheme inherited from Proto-Bantu (PB), but developed a new suffix. It is a morpheme that is compound in origin, consisting of two verbal derivation suffixes which still ...
Bostoen, Koen, Nzang-Bie, Yolande
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Towards an analysis of the causative/non-causative alternation in Udmurt [PDF]
, 2014 The paper studies the causative/non-causative alternation in Udmurt. I propose an analysis based on Distributed Morphology (Marantz 1984; 1997): I suggest that the causative and non-causative variants of the alternation in Udmurt are derived from roots ...
Tánczos, Orsolya
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Non-Pronominal Intransitive Verb Variants with Property Interpretation: A Characterization
Languages, 2023 In this paper, we study a syntactic construction that has received little attention in the study of Spanish grammar (La masa de pizza congela perfectamente, ‘Pizza dough freezes perfectly’).
Elena Felíu Arquiola
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On Causal and Anticausal Learning [PDF]
, 2012 Appears in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012).
Schölkopf, B. +5 more
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Anticausatives are weak scalar expressions, not reflexive expressions
Glossa, 2016 We discuss conceptual and empirical arguments from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages against an analysis treating anticausative verbs as derived from their lexical causative counterparts under reflexivization. Instead, we defend the standard account
Florian Schäfer, Margot Vivanco
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Derivation of verbs attested in the old Lithuanian scripts: infixed and sta-stem anticausatives
Lietuvių Kalba, 2020 The article presents the analysis of infixed and sta-stem verbs opposed to ia-stem verbs attested in the old Lithuanian scripts, investigating the opposition causative/anticausative.
Dalia Pakalniškienė
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Language vs. grammatical tradition in Ancient India: how real was Pāṇinian Sanskrit? Evidence from the history of late Sanskrit passives and pseudo-passives [PDF]
, 2013 by Pāṇinian grammarians and the forms and constructions that are actually attested in the Vedic corpus (a part of which is traditionally believed to underlie Pāṇinian grammar).
Kulikov, Leonid
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