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The afterlife of the antipassive: Alignment shift and transitivity

Bernard Comrie
E-mail: comrie@ucsb.edu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0487-7005
University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract: Three examples are presented of reanalyses of antipassives as or in the direction of ordinary transitive constructions, from Tsez, Chukchi, and Mayan languages. In all cases, an antipassive constructi...