Noncanonical Passives: A Typology of Voices in an Impoverished Universal Grammar

Noncanonical Passives: A Typology of Voices in an Impoverished Universal Grammar

Noncanonical passives crosslinguistically exhaust the space of possible variation, supporting an approach whereby Universal Grammar is underspecified for the characteristics of voice and the properties of any particular construction are learned through experience. Languages considered include Passam...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annual review of linguistics 2021-01, Vol.7 (1), p.157-176
1. Verfasser: Legate, Julie Anne
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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active existential
causative
impersonal
impersonal passive
inverse
Language & Linguistics
Linguistics
noncanonical
object voice
passive
perfective passive
Social Sciences
subject-object reversal
voice
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Zusammenfassung:Noncanonical passives crosslinguistically exhaust the space of possible variation, supporting an approach whereby Universal Grammar is underspecified for the characteristics of voice and the properties of any particular construction are learned through experience. Languages considered include Passamaquoddy and Oji-Cree (Algonquian); Dutch and Icelandic (Germanic); Ukrainian (Slavic); Welsh and Irish (Celtic); Hindi (Indo-Aryan); Acehnese, Indonesian, and Manggarai (Malayo-Polynesian); Sason Arabic (Arabic); Bemba and Kirundi (Bantu); Lithuanian (Baltic); Turkish (Turkic); and Mandarin (Sinitic).
ISSN:2333-9683
2333-9691
2333-9691
DOI:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031920-114459