L’antipassif dans les langues accusatives

Janic, Katarzyna

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“…Antipassive-verb markers are typically polyfunctional and may also express some other diathetic function (Polinsky 2017: 314;Say 2021). Different patterns of polyfunctionality (or syncretism) have been described in the literature (see, inter alia, Shibatani 2006: 239;Janic 2016aJanic , 2016bSansò 2017Sansò , 2018Jacques 2021), and so we only mention the most frequent ones here: incorporated reciprocal pronouns, indefinite pronouns and markers of middle voice (and thus often former reflexives). For example, the monovalent antipassive (marked by the circumfix k(a)-…-ti) in Cavineña (Pano-Tucanoan) is primarily used as the middle voice including reflexive and reciprocal functions (Guillaume 2008: 274ff ).…”

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Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

Seržant

Janic

Dermaku

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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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Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

Seržant

Janic

Dermaku

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“…However, the reconstruction of a Proto-West-Mande middle voice marker *-i is not necessary, since parallel grammaticalization from a common source is also quite plausible, as suggested for example by the observation of the reflexes of the Indo-European reflexive pronoun *se that grammaticalized as middle voice markers in several branches of Indo-European. 4 In the languages of the world, two main sources have been identifi ed for markers ambiguous between an antipassive function and other semantic types of detransitivization: refl exive pronouns, as in Indo-European languages, or markers of reciprocity / associativity, as in Bantu languages, Oceanic languages, or Turkic languages (Janic 2016). Other possible sources of detransitivizing markers have been discussed in the literature, but in the case of the West-Mande detransitivizing suffi x -i, the only scenario supported by formal resemblance between this suffi x and a possible etymon is the grammaticalization of a for mer reflexive pronoun (i.e., a scenario of the type attested in various branches of the Indo-European family).…”

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The detransitivizing suffix -i and the reconstruction of Pre-Proto-Mande constituent order

Creissels¹

2020

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The uniformity and total rigidity of the SOVX constituent order across Mande languages constitutes a typological oddity, which led several scholars to discuss the possibility of analyzing it as historically derived from a typologically more common constituent order. In this article, I show that the hypothesis of a historical link between a detransitivizing suffix -i found in some West Mande languages and a reflexive pronoun reconstructable as í has implications for the reconstruction of Pre-Proto-Mande constituent order.

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“…In the functional-typological camp, patterns of syncretism are generally explained by resorting to some general semantic/functional core that encompasses the whole semantics of a grammatical item/construction. A case in point is Kemmer's (1993) notion of "relative elaboration of events" as invoked, for instance, by Janic (2013Janic ( , 2016 to account for the reflexive/ reciprocal/antipassive syncretism:…”

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“…Partagée par les constructions réfléchie et antipassive, cette propriété sémantique peut être traitée comme le possible facteur qui aurait pu déboucher sur l'extension du réfléchi vers l'emploi antipassif." (Janic, 2013: 256, emphasis mine)…”

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Explaining the diversity of antipassives: Formal grammar vs. (diachronic) typology

Sansò

2018

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Antipassives have different structural and semantic properties and are used under different conditions across languages. They also show a few universal tendencies: For instance, they generally correlate with imperfectivity. Both the diversity and the universal tendencies of antipassives have fostered a variety of analyses of this construction type in the formalist and the functional typological frameworks. In this article, these analyses will be surveyed with a view to establishing their explanatory potential and will be compared with a diachronic typological account of how antipassives diverge and what they have in common. It will be shown that at least part of this diversity finds a straightforward explanation once the sources of the antipassive are taken into account and that most of the semantic and distributional universals of antipassives are persistent features of their sources.

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L’antipassif dans les langues accusatives

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Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

The detransitivizing suffix -i and the reconstruction of Pre-Proto-Mande constituent order

Explaining the diversity of antipassives: Formal grammar vs. (diachronic) typology

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