The
afterlife of the antipassive
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Published:2021-12-20
Issue:2
Volume:22
Page:251-268
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ISSN:1848-9001
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Container-title:Jezikoslovlje
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language:
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Short-container-title:Jezikoslovlje (Online)
Affiliation:
1. University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract
Three
examples are presented of reanalyses of antipassives as or in the direction
of ordinary transitive constructions, from Tsez, Chukchi, and Mayan
languages. In all cases, an antipassive construction remains in the language
or language family concerned, thus presenting empirical evidence of
reanalysis to parallel earlier hypothesized reconstructions of antipassives
to explain synchronic idiosyncrasies
Publisher
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Osijek
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics