Chapter 15. Indirect antipassive in Circassian

Arkadiev, Peter; Letuchiy, Alexander

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“…For example, the type frequency of bivalent antipassives is extremely low in Adyghe: the expression of P in the antipassive is allowed only by a handful of verbs. What is more, other P-backgrounding constructions such as A-lability do not allow the expression of P at all in this language (Arkadiev & Letuchiy 2021). Also a lower token frequency of bivalent P-backgrounding constructions as opposed to the monovalent ones is observed.…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Our sampling approach was modestly conservative in that we tried to sample over non-accusative languages (Figure 1). An extreme case is, for example, Adyghe which is ergative in flagging, indexing and even shows features of syntactic ergativity (Arkadiev & Letuchiy 2021). However, sampling only highly ergative languages (such as Adyghe) with a good description of antipassives would have yielded a very small sample.…”

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“…The counts from different languages show that in each language the number of active (basic tran-15. Note that, in some languages, the antipassive marking is not any longer than the corresponding active marking because vowel gradation (ablaut) is used here, e.g., in Matsés (Fleck 2003: 939), Päri (Andersen 1988: 300ff ), Adyghe or Kabardinian (Arkadiev & Letuchiy 2021). For example, Adyghe and Kabardinian employ ablaut of the root vowel to mark the antipassive such as -šxə-'eat.tr' vs. -sxe-'eat.ap' (Arkadiev & Letuchiy 2021).…”

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“…(through)' vs. antipassive jeǯe 'read sth. ' (Arkadiev & Letuchiy 2021). Matsés also employs the antipassive affix -an even more frequently than the ablaut in terms of type frequency (Fleck 2003: 939).…”

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“…. We followedArkadiev & Letuchiy (2008); Letuchiy (2012);Arkadiev & Letuchiy (2021) in claiming that Adyghe does have an antipassive derivation (pace Matasović 2010: 42). [22] Ilja A. Seržant et al…”

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Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

Seržant

Janic

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Frequency asymmetries within a minimal grammatical domain create offline associations that languages tend to exploit for a more efficient encoding. We explore cross-linguistic coding patterns of antipassives. We first argue that antipassive markers tend to have properties of derivational markers. Secondly, we show that antipassives are considerably rarer than the basic transitive constructions. The lower frequency correlates with the length of coding: antipassives tend to be coded with longer forms than basic transitive verbs. Thirdly, we explore frequency associations of different lexical input types and find that it is the rare input types that tend to select the antipassive, if the marking is differential, while the frequent ones correlate with the unmarked verb (A-lability). We, furthermore, show that the rarer argument types and argument scenarios correlate stronger with antipassives than the more frequent argument types and scenarios.

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Section: Our Sample and Corpus Data 13mentioning

confidence: 99%