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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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A case for two voices in Old Church Slavonic – reflexively marked OCS verbs
LingBaW, 2015 Old Church Slavonic data manifest significant similarities in the distribution and formal properties of anticausatives, reflexives, subject experiencer verbs, statives, and reciprocals, while their semantics may also be viewed as partly uniform.
Anna Malicka-Kleparska
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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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Active, middle, and passive: the morpho-syntax of Voice
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2014 This paper is concerned with the variation found with respect to how languages morphologically mark argument structure (AS) alternations, a variation that I take to be related to the realization of the syntactic Voice head.
Artemis Alexiadou
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2011 This paper argues that the simple reflexive pronoun sig is unambiguously a thematic argument in Icelandic. This is shown to be true not only of sig with naturally reflexive verbs but also of inherently reflexive sig.
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
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Low applicatives and optional se in Spanish non-anticausative intransitive verbs
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2013 This work revolves around a very peculiar set of Spanish verbs (‘caer[se]’, ‘morir[se]’, ‘tropezar[se]’ and ‘encallar[se]’), which optionally allow the clitic ‘se’ without any significant change of meaning.
Ismael Iván Teomiro García
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SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 Nous proposons une analyse du médiopassif fondée sur sa comparaison avec d'autres structures à renversement, notamment les anticausatives, les formes passives et les constructions à sujet instrumental.
Marie Laurence Knittel
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The lexical semantics and syntax interface of anticausative alternations in Kiwoso
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019 This paper examines argument alternation constructions in the Bantu language, Kiwoso. The data demonstrates that alternation is constrained by selectional properties of a root and its combination with different functional heads, which is language ...
Mallya, Aurelia
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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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The Agentivity Restriction and the Distribution of Anticausatives in Japanese [PDF]
, 2022 978-4-9910001-4-0journal ...
Yasuhara Masaki
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