The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance

Cennamo, Michela

doi:10.1075/cilt.350.06cen

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“…The textbook example of the oppositional > non-oppositional shift is the rise of the Reflexive middle of the modern Indo-European languages of Europe, including Romance, Germanic, Slavic and Baltic languages (Kemmer 1993: 151-193;Ottosson 2008;Holvoet 2020, among others). For reasons of space, I focus on the development from Latin to Romance (the following discussion is based on Kemmer 1993: 151-182 and Cennamo 1993, 1999, 2020a, 2020b with extensive references).…”

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The rise of middle voice systems

Inglese

2023

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Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it obligatorily occurs with no obvious synchronic motivation. Despite the existing cross-linguistic work on middle markers, their history is still largely unknown. In the typological literature, the standard view is that middle markers predominantly have their origin in reflexive markers, and that, in their development, it is invariantly the grammatical component that expands to the lexical component. In this paper, I challenge these assumptions based on the analysis of a sample of 129 middle marking languages. As I show, the sources and pathways whereby middle markers come about are much more numerous and varied than what has been reported in the literature. By taking a source-oriented approach, I also discuss how recurrent cross-linguistic trends in the distribution of middle markers can in part be explained by looking at their history.

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Section: Oppositional > Non-oppositionalmentioning

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The rise of middle voice systems

Inglese

2023

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Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family

2022

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This volume advances research on diachronic alignment typology across the Indo-European family, showing the breadth and fertility of this field. It brings together contributions from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors contributing to variety and change in alignment and argument realisation. The chapters included in the book explore synchronic and diachronic dimensions of alignment morphosyntax based on a broad range of data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic (including Romance), Armenian, and Slavic. Few existing studies deal with variation and change in the alignment typology across languages belonging to one linguistic family, and the present volume aims to fill this gap. Alignment is taken to include both basic alignment patterns associated with major construction types as well as various valency-decreasing constructions, such as passives, anticausatives, and impersonals. The chapters range from broad comparative studies based on data from several branches to careful studies of specific constructions in individual languages, with a strong empirical focus, partly drawing on qualitative and partly on quantitative methods. The volume contributes to a more precise understanding of the respective roles played by analogy/extension, reanalysis, and areal factors in alignment change, demonstrating the versatility of argument realisation morphosyntax in genetically related languages.

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The actualization of new voice patterns in Romance

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Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family

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