Family Resemblance and the Syncretism of Reflexive Marks: The Case of Georgian.
Georgian verbal pre-radical vowel -i- raises many issues for generative and cognitive approaches to the syncretism of reflexive marks. The vowel bears medio-passive functionalities (Nash, 2002), occurring also in full reflexives (Amiridze, 2006) and as a perfective aspect marker for atelic verbs (Ho...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8641474 |
| Summary: | Georgian verbal pre-radical vowel -i- raises many issues for generative and cognitive approaches to the syncretism of reflexive marks. The vowel bears medio-passive functionalities (Nash, 2002), occurring also in full reflexives (Amiridze, 2006) and as a perfective aspect marker for atelic verbs (Holisky, 1981). In this paper I show that any analysis based in valence reduction - the most obvious path for accounting for this kind of phenomenon - is uncapable of foreseeing the distribution of -i-. Alternatively, I propose that the vowel is distributed according to a Wittgensteinian Family Resemblance (Familienähnlichkeit) set. |
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| ISSN: | 2447-0686 |