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Voiced Obstruents in Mien and Old Chinese Reconstructions

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2020
This paper presents additional data from Chinese loanwords into Hmong-Mien documenting the existence of prenasalization in Old Chinese, focusing on one variety: Jiangdi Mien.
Guillaume Jacques
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Transitivity in Bakel Soninke

Mandenkan, 2013
In this paper, after presenting the main particularities of the phonology and morphosyntax of Bakel Soninke, we provide a detailed analysis of the morphosyntactic mechanisms involving transitivity: morphologically unmarked transitivity alternations and ...
Denis Creissels, Anna Marie Diagne
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Reflexive verbs in Hebrew: Deep unaccusativity meets lexical semantics

Glossa, 2017
Reflexive verbs in Modern Hebrew show specific morphological marking: only one of the seven verbal templates in the language can be used for reflexives.
Itamar Kastner
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Restrictions on reflexive and anti-causative readings in nominalizations and participles

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2011
This article discusses the absence of reflexive or self-caused readings in certain types of participles and de-verbal nominalizations, like the hanging of the suicidal patient and The suicidal patient was hanged yesterday.
Björn Lundquist
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Noncore datives in Basque and Spanish impersonal, passive and anticausative sentences

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
This paper focuses on the Basque impersonal construction, i.e. a detransitivized configuration that can convey impersonal, passive and middle readings.
Imanol Suárez-Palma, Alba Santamaría-Gallego   +1 more
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Verbalizing nouns and adjectives: The case of behavior-related verbs

Glossa, 2020
In languages such as French, it is possible to derive from nouns or adjectives unergative verbs that intuitively describe ways of behaving, for example, diplomatiser ‘behave like a diplomat’, or bêtifier ‘behave like an idiot’.
Christopher Pinon, Fabienne Martin
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Psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian [PDF]

Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft
This paper investigates the psych reflexive alternation in Ukrainian and Russian with a focus on the EO/ES (Experiencer Object / Experiencer Subject) alternation.
Bożena Rozwadowska, Liudmyla Petryk, Natalia Shlikhutka   +2 more
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Transitivity Alternations in North Sámi

Open Linguistics, 2016
In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi ...
Julien Marit
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Nonstandard Use of the “Reflexive” Affix -s^ja in Russian Speech of Bilingual Speakers of Northern Siberia and the Russian Far East

Languages, 2019
One of the features of the oral Russian speech of bilingual speakers of the indigenous languages of Russia is the omission/the overuse of the “reflexive” affix -sja (a “middle voice” marker with a wide range of uses including ...
Irina Khomchenkova, Polina Pleshak, Natalia Stoynova   +2 more
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The role of opacity in the attrition of the Hungarian passive

Glossa
It is argued that the passive construction, common in the SOV Ob-Ugric sister languages of Hungarian displaying fused grammatical and discourse functions, was a frequent construction in Proto-Hungarian, as well, but its use gradually declined in the Old ...
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