Evidence against unidirectionality in the emergence of middle voice systems-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Evidence against unidirectionality in the emergence of middle voice systems

Published:2023-07-01 Issue:2 Volume:76 Page:235-265
ISSN:1867-8319
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Author:

Inglese Guglielmo¹,Verstraete Jean-Christophe²³

Affiliation:

1. Università di Torino , Torino , Italy

2. University of Leuven , Leuven , Belgium

3. Australian National University , Canberra , Australia

Abstract

AbstractMiddle voice systems are characterized by the distribution of a middle marker over two macro-classes of verbs: oppositional and non-oppositional verbs. In diachronic studies, it has been proposed that the historical link between the two groups is unidirectional, with middle marking spreading from oppositional to non-oppositional verbs. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and discuss two case studies, one from Anatolian and one from Paman languages that show the opposite development, that is, from non-oppositional to oppositional. In both cases, we argue, constructions that originally had a lexically determined distribution develop grammatical functions connected with valency reduction.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/stuf-2023-2010/pdf

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