Passive in Nganasan

Leisiö, Larisa

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“…Hence an active of an ergative language can be interpreted as an active or as a passive of an accusative language depending on the context. Leisiö (2006) assesses the passive constructions of Nganasan which is one of the varieties of Uralic language family. She claims that the characteristics of the English passive assigned by Foley and Van Valin (1984: 110-111) hold true for the Nganasan passive, as well.…”

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Passive Constructions in Ilami Kurdish. A Role and Reference Grammar Account

2017

Dialectologia

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As far as obfuscation of the truth is taken into account, passivization seems to be one of the most prominent processes by which the agent of an action may become evasive (by being omitted or demoted to non-obligatory prepositional constituent) in certain contexts. Cross-linguistically, these constructions may not necessarily be formed in an identical fashion, as in some languages such items may be constructed syntactically, morphologically and/ or lexically. In this paper, through employing Role and Reference Grammar framework, we attempt to represent the nature of passive constructions in Ilami, a southern variety of Kurdish language. In pursuit of this goal, we enjoy Ilami data to represent how passivization could be explained in the RRG [Role and Reference Grammar] framework. Analyzing our Kurdish data, we concluded that Ilami gains advantage of the main types of passivization strategies. The use of strict morphological, periphrastic and impersonal passives was well-attested, and additionally, it can be said that the two stages of passivization suggested in RRG are done in Ilami passives.

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Passive Constructions in Ilami Kurdish. A Role and Reference Grammar Account

2017

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Passive in Nganasan

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Passive Constructions in Ilami Kurdish. A Role and Reference Grammar Account

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