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

• Alexiadou, Artemis ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Stuttgart

     University of Stuttgart

     Stadtkreis Stuttgart, Alemania

     
• Localización: Catalan journal of linguistics, ISSN-e 2014-9719, ISSN 1695-6885, Vol. 13, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Voice phenomena), págs. 19-40
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.153
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Activa, mitjana i passiva: la morfosintaxi de la veu
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  • English

    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.

  • català

    Aquest article tracta la variació que mostren les llengües en el marcatge morfològic dels canvis en l’estructura argumental (EA), una variació que considero que està relacionada amb la realització del nucli sintàctic Veu. L’article estudia el comportament de les construccions mitjanes disposicionals i de les reflexives en llengües com l’anglès, en contrast amb les seves construccions corresponents en grec. Desenvoluparé la hipòtesi que darrere de les alternances en l’EA hi ha implicats tres nuclis Veu relacionats. El nucli Veu activa és a la base de l’estructura de tots els predicats transitius i inergatius de totes les llengües, que en el cas de l’anglès inclou les mitjanes disposicionals i reflexives. El nucli Veu passiva, que aquest article tractarà de manera molt breu, pren com a input una estructura transitiva i genera una passiva en llengües del tipus anglès/alemany/hebreu. El nucli Veu mitjana és l’homòleg no actiu del Veu activa de Kratzer i produeix reflexives, passives i mitjanes disposicionals en llengües del tipus grec.

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