Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2021.7

The afterlife of the antipassive: Alignment shift and transitivity

Bernard Comrie orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-7005 ; University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract

Three examples are presented of reanalyses of antipassives as or in the direction of ordinary transitive constructions, from Tsez, Chukchi, and Mayan languages. In all cases, an antipassive construction remains in the language or language family concerned, thus presenting empirical evidence of reanalysis to parallel earlier hypothesized reconstructions of antipassives to explain synchronic idiosyncrasies

Keywords

antipassive; alignment; alignment shift; Tsez; Chukchi; Mayan languages

Hrčak ID:

267455

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/267455

Publication date:

20.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: german

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