Tense-aspect conditioned agent marking in Kanakanavu, an Austronesian language of Taiwan

This article examines two types of lexical effects in the voice system of Kanakanavu, an Austronesian language of Taiwan. The first concerns a well-attested phenomenon in the Austronesian literature: interactions between the semantic transitivity of verbs and their ability (or lack thereof) to under...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheng Yi-Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-07-01
Series:Open Linguistics
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0234