Voice Syncretism

Author : Nicklas N. Bahrt
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103194
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voice syncretism written by Nicklas N. Bahrt and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals, anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive, reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages and encourage further research into the phenomenon.

Author : Simon C. Dik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112420128
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Functional Grammar written by Simon C. Dik and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Functional Grammar".

Author : Heidi Harley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers from the UPenn/MIT Roundtable on Argument Structure and Aspect written by Heidi Harley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book MIT Working Papers in Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Baerman
Publisher : British Academy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deponency and Morphological Mismatches written by Matthew Baerman and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by leading linguists on the theory and typology of mismatches between syntax and morphology will establish the important role that research on deponency has to play in contemporary linguistics, and set the standard for future work.

Author : Livia Ana Tătaru
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Contrastive Study of the Pronunciation of Rumanian and English written by Livia Ana Tătaru and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Livia Ana Tătaru
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pronunciation of Rumanian and English written by Livia Ana Tătaru and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Davies
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Systemic Linguistics written by Martin Davies and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1126 pages
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Author : Michael Jessen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027215537
Total Pages : 415 pages
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Download or read book Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German written by Michael Jessen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists — among them Roman Jakobson — have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant phonetic core of this distinction. Later it became the dominant view that voice onset time or laryngeal features are more reasonable alternatives. However, based on a number of facts and arguments from current phonetics and phonology this book claims that the Jakobsonian feature tense was rejected prematurely. Among the theoretical aspects addressed, it is argued that an acoustic definition of distinctive features best captures the functional aspects of speech communication, while it is also discussed how the conclusions are relevant for formal accounts, such as feature geometry. The invariant of tense is proposed to be durational, and its 'basic correlate' is proposed to be aspiration duration. It is shown that tense and voice differ in their invariant properties and basic correlates, but that they share a number of other correlates, including F0 onset and closure duration. In their stop systems languages constitute a typology between the selection of voice and tense, but in their fricative systems languages universally tend towards a syncretism involving voicing and tenseness together. Though the proposals made here are intended to have general validity, the emphasis is on German. As part of this focus, an acoustic study and a transillumination study of the realization of /p,t,k,f,s/ vs. /b,d,g,v,z/ in German are presented.