Active, middle, and passive: the morpho-syntax of Voice

This paper is concerned with the variation found with respect to how languages morphologically mark argument structure (AS) alternations, a variation that I take to be related to the realization of the syntactic Voice head. The paper discusses the behavior of dispositional middles and reflexives in...

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Autor principal:	Artemis Alexiadou
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2014
Materias:	voice dispositional middles reflexives anticausatives Passive Middle Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c1daa5fcc1e54274a22555497a3a67a82021-11-27T10:47:12ZActive, middle, and passive: the morpho-syntax of Voice10.5565/rev/catjl.1531695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/c1daa5fcc1e54274a22555497a3a67a82014-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/153https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719This paper is concerned with the variation found with respect to how languages morphologically mark argument structure (AS) alternations, a variation that I take to be related to the realization of the syntactic Voice head. The paper discusses the behavior of dispositional middles and reflexives in languages such as English as opposed to their Greek counterparts. I will pursue the hypothesis that there are three Voice related heads implicated in AS alternations across languages. Active Voice is involved in the structure of all transitive and unergative predicates across languages, which in English subsumes d. middles and reflexives. Passive Voice, which the paper will only briefly touch upon here, takes as an input a transitive structure and gives an English/German/Hebrew type passive. Middle Voice is the non-active counterpart of Kratzer’s active Voice and gives rise to reflexives, passives and dispositional middles in Greek type languages. Artemis AlexiadouUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlevoicedispositional middlesreflexivesanticausativesPassiveMiddlePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 13 (2014)
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spellingShingle	voice dispositional middles reflexives anticausatives Passive Middle Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Artemis Alexiadou Active, middle, and passive: the morpho-syntax of Voice
description	This paper is concerned with the variation found with respect to how languages morphologically mark argument structure (AS) alternations, a variation that I take to be related to the realization of the syntactic Voice head. The paper discusses the behavior of dispositional middles and reflexives in languages such as English as opposed to their Greek counterparts. I will pursue the hypothesis that there are three Voice related heads implicated in AS alternations across languages. Active Voice is involved in the structure of all transitive and unergative predicates across languages, which in English subsumes d. middles and reflexives. Passive Voice, which the paper will only briefly touch upon here, takes as an input a transitive structure and gives an English/German/Hebrew type passive. Middle Voice is the non-active counterpart of Kratzer’s active Voice and gives rise to reflexives, passives and dispositional middles in Greek type languages.
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Active, middle, and passive: the morpho-syntax of Voice

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