Subject autonomy marking in Macro-Tani and the typology of middle voice

Middle voice constructions are generally understood as syntactically detransitivizing and as semantically characterized by a “low degree of event elaboration” (in Kemmer’s terms) involving a relatively affected subject. Middle voice constructions thus characterized have been identified in several Tr...

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Main Authors: Post Mark W., Modi Yankee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-01-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0218