On the Reflexive-Antipassive Polysemy: Typological Convergence from Unrelated Languages

Janic, Katarzyna

doi:10.3765/bls.v36i1.3909

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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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Section: Typology Of Antipassivesmentioning

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Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

Seržant

Janic

Dermaku

et al. 2021

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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 () notion of “relative elaboration of events” as invoked, for instance, by Janic (, ) to account for the reflexive/reciprocal/antipassive syncretism:…”

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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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“…Generally speaking, the polysemy of associative -an-can be semantically accounted for through the cross-linguistically common concept of 'plurality of relations' (Lichtenberk 2000; Janic & Segerer 2011;Bostoen et al 2015: §3.5). In some languages, however, the associative has acquired functions that cannot be explained in this way.…”

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The middle as a voice category in Bantu: Setting the stage for further research

Dom

Куликов

Bostoen

2016

Lingua Posnaniensis

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The main goal of our paper is to give a first, general description of middle voice in Bantu. As will be shown, this language group has a set of verbal derivational morphemes that challenges some of the concepts related to the middle domain. First of all, as of yet no description has been found of a language having more than one middle marker, yet many Bantu languages have up to four or five derivational morphemes that cover several parts of the semantic domain of the middle. Secondly, provided that the polysemy patterns of these morphemes only partially cover what is generally considered the "canonical" middle domain, we will call these "quasi-middle" markers. The fact that these verbal morphemes also convey notions that are usually not considered to belong to the domain of the canonical middle calls for a reassessment of what constitutes the semantic core of this voice category cross-linguistically. Although the theoretical implications of these new data are not the central focus of our paper, the basic description that we aim to provide of the middle in Bantu can nevertheless contribute to further discussion on this intricate voice category.

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On the Reflexive-Antipassive Polysemy: Typological Convergence from Unrelated Languages

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

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

The middle as a voice category in Bantu: Setting the stage for further research

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