West Greenlandic antipassive

On the basis of syntactic and morphological evidence from West Greenlandic (WG) antipassive (AP) constructions, I argue against the view that the AP affix is nominal. The fact that the transitivizing and the antipassive affixes in a number of verbs are in complementary distribution, leads me to conc...

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Published in:Nordlyd
Main Author: Bodil Kappel Schmidt
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Norwegian
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2004
Subjects:
West Greenlandic Language
Antipassive
Transitivity
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
greenlandic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7557/12.10
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spelling ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d4ab6442032345c8941d1fd576533346 2023-05-15T16:31:04+02:00 West Greenlandic antipassive Bodil Kappel Schmidt 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/12.10 https://doaj.org/article/d4ab6442032345c8941d1fd576533346 EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/10 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-8599 doi:10.7557/12.10 1503-8599 https://doaj.org/article/d4ab6442032345c8941d1fd576533346 Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 31, Iss 2 (2004) West Greenlandic Language Antipassive Transitivity Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 article 2004 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/12.10 2022-12-31T15:45:03Z On the basis of syntactic and morphological evidence from West Greenlandic (WG) antipassive (AP) constructions, I argue against the view that the AP affix is nominal. The fact that the transitivizing and the antipassive affixes in a number of verbs are in complementary distribution, leads me to conclude that they both realize a light verb, transitivizing v, one on the ERG-NOM pattern, the other on the NOM-ACC pattern. Nominalization facts of the two clause types indicate their syntactic structure, with possible implications for the semantic interpretation of the object and the position of the ergative subject. Article in Journal/Newspaper greenlandic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Nordlyd 31 2
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Norwegian
topic West Greenlandic Language
Antipassive
Transitivity
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
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Antipassive
Transitivity
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
Bodil Kappel Schmidt
West Greenlandic antipassive
topic_facet West Greenlandic Language
Antipassive
Transitivity
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
description On the basis of syntactic and morphological evidence from West Greenlandic (WG) antipassive (AP) constructions, I argue against the view that the AP affix is nominal. The fact that the transitivizing and the antipassive affixes in a number of verbs are in complementary distribution, leads me to conclude that they both realize a light verb, transitivizing v, one on the ERG-NOM pattern, the other on the NOM-ACC pattern. Nominalization facts of the two clause types indicate their syntactic structure, with possible implications for the semantic interpretation of the object and the position of the ergative subject.
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