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: Schmidt, Bodil Kappel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2004
Subjects:
West Greenlandic Language
Antipassive
Transitivity
greenlandic
Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/10
https://doi.org/10.7557/12.10
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spelling ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/10 2023-05-15T16:31:03+02:00 West Greenlandic antipassive Schmidt, Bodil Kappel 2004-01-29 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/10 https://doi.org/10.7557/12.10 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/10/9 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/10 doi:10.7557/12.10 Copyright (c) 2003 Bodil Kappel Schmidt Nordlyd; Vol 31 No 2 (2003): Proceedings of SCL 19 Nordlyd; Årg 31 Nr 2 (2003): Proceedings of SCL 19 1503-8599 West Greenlandic Language Antipassive Transitivity info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2004 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/12.10 2021-08-16T14:06:26Z 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 University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Nordlyd 31 2
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Antipassive
Transitivity
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Antipassive
Transitivity
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West Greenlandic antipassive
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Transitivity
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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