Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.2.11
The Grammatical Category of Voice in the Japanese Language
Dragana Špica
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Sažetak
The paper systematically defines the grammatical category of voice in Japanese and describes seven of its sub-types: the passive (including direct, indirect and possessive/affective passives), the causative, the potential/possibilitive, the spontaneous voice, the reciprocal construction, lexical voice (alternating intransitive–transitive verb pairs), and the periphrastic resultative te aru. These seven sub-types are then analysed against the seven prototype-based criteria for the category of voice proposed by Polančec (2015). The matrix evaluation shows that the passive and the causative form the core of the category, the potential, the reciprocal construction and te aru occupy a transitional zone, while the spontaneous voice, and the lexical alternation of intransitive–transitive pairs lie at the periphery. The paper offers a framework for further contrastive analyses between Japanese and Croatian.
Ključne riječi
voice; Japanese; passive; indirect passive; causative; typology; valency; case particles
Hrčak ID:
344801
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.1.2026.
Posjeta: 742 *