The Limits of Deponency: A Chukotko-centric Perspective*
This chapter discusses two questions about the phenomenon of deponency. It lays out the basic case for treating the spurious antipassive (SAP) as an instance of deponency and looks at the differences between Chukchi and Latin. The highlights of a detailed theoretical analysis of the Chukchi SAP are...
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| Format: | Book Part |
| Language: | English |
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British Academy
2007
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264102.003.0008 |
| Summary: | This chapter discusses two questions about the phenomenon of deponency. It lays out the basic case for treating the spurious antipassive (SAP) as an instance of deponency and looks at the differences between Chukchi and Latin. The highlights of a detailed theoretical analysis of the Chukchi SAP are then presented. The chapter concludes that no special deponency devices are necessary for an analysis of v-deponents in the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages. Its properties are found to arise from the independently observed properties of Chukchi grammar, interacting in a predictable fashion with independent principles of morphology and syntax. |
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