Asymmetries between Passivization and Antipassivization in the Tarramiutut
This paper investigates some of the properties of passivization, antipassivization, and two types of causatives in the Tarramiutut subdialect of Inuktitut, within the Role and Reference Grammar framework. Data from the use of the floated quantifier, “atuniit”, as well as interclausal binding will be...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.214.2159 2023-05-15T16:55:35+02:00 Asymmetries between Passivization and Antipassivization in the Tarramiutut Subdialect Of Inuktitut Matthew Beach The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2003 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.214.2159 http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/8/lfg03beach.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.214.2159 http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/8/lfg03beach.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/8/lfg03beach.pdf text 2003 ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T17:57:54Z This paper investigates some of the properties of passivization, antipassivization, and two types of causatives in the Tarramiutut subdialect of Inuktitut, within the Role and Reference Grammar framework. Data from the use of the floated quantifier, “atuniit”, as well as interclausal binding will be used to suggest that NPs which express arguments in constructions which, in their most canonical use, leave the argument unspecified behave as peripheral adjuncts. Since this is not the case with antipassives, undergoers in antipassive constructions behave as core arguments, rather than as peripheral adjuncts. This paper will also investigate the interaction between antipassivization and dative shift. The data will be used to argue that a “lexical intransitivization ” account of antipassivization, which would claim that there is no undergoer in antipassive constructions, makes incorrect predictions. I will argue that the undergoer in antipassive constructions has a similar status to accusative undergoers in nominative/accusative languages. The strongest prediction that this paper can make is that the two types of voice alternations investigated in this paper are representative of the Text inuktitut Unknown |
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This paper investigates some of the properties of passivization, antipassivization, and two types of causatives in the Tarramiutut subdialect of Inuktitut, within the Role and Reference Grammar framework. Data from the use of the floated quantifier, “atuniit”, as well as interclausal binding will be used to suggest that NPs which express arguments in constructions which, in their most canonical use, leave the argument unspecified behave as peripheral adjuncts. Since this is not the case with antipassives, undergoers in antipassive constructions behave as core arguments, rather than as peripheral adjuncts. This paper will also investigate the interaction between antipassivization and dative shift. The data will be used to argue that a “lexical intransitivization ” account of antipassivization, which would claim that there is no undergoer in antipassive constructions, makes incorrect predictions. I will argue that the undergoer in antipassive constructions has a similar status to accusative undergoers in nominative/accusative languages. The strongest prediction that this paper can make is that the two types of voice alternations investigated in this paper are representative of the |
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