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- Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The MIT Press
- Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
summary
In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. Legate further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through minor variations in the properties of VoiceP, Legate explains a wide range of non-canonical voice constructions, including: agent-agreeing passives, grammatical object passives, impersonals, object voice constructions, and applicative voice in causatives. Her analysis draws on data from a typologically diverse set of languages, not only Malayo-Polynesian, but also Celtic, Scandinavian, and Slavic. Voice and v provides a detailed investigation into the syntactic structure of an understudied Malayo-Polynesian language, and thereby reveals important insights for the theoretical analysis of voice and the verb phrase. Moreover, the work applies and broadens these insights to a range of related passive-like constructions crosslinguistically. Voice and v thus joins a handful of model volumes that enlist typological depth and breadth to further our development of modern linguistic theory.
Table of Contents
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- Series Foreword
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- 1 Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- 2 Passive Voice
- pp. 9-46
- 3 Object Voice
- pp. 47-84
- 4 A Cline of Passives
- pp. 85-110
- 5 Voice and Causatives
- pp. 111-140
- 6 Conclusion
- pp. 141-142
- References
- pp. 163-184
- Series List
- pp. 191-194
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262320559
Related ISBN(s)
9780262028141
MARC Record
OCLC
894554872
Pages
160
Launched on MUSE
2014-11-07
Language
English
Open Access
No