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

https://doi.org/10.29162/jez.2021.7

https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/388301

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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 construction remains in the language or language family concerned, thus presenting empirical evidence of reanalysis to parallel earlier hypothesized reconstructions of antipassives to explain synchronic idiosyncrasies

Ključne riječi:

antipassive, alignment, alignment shift, Tsez, Chukchi, Mayan languages,

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