The Slavonic Languages and the Development of the Antipassive Marker

Janic, Katarzyna

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“…Creissels (2012) reconstructed the Proto-West-Mande suffix *-i as the source of a detransitivizing suffix that grammaticalized into the reflexive pronoun í for Mandinka, among other Mande languages, and functions as an AP marker for some verbs (2012: 15). This is also observed and studied by Janic (2013) for Slavonic (specifically, Polish and Russian). An earlier paper by Terrill (1997), focusing on the development of AP in Australian languages, examined the diachronic processes by which the verbal morphology of reflexive constructions is reanalyzed and extended to AP constructions, first to a pragmatic AP and then to a structural AP.…”

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“…Typological studies of the AP, such as Polinsky (2017), present and discuss various manifestations of this construction and weave together characteristics shared across ergative and accusative languages, which can serve as a set of diagnostics to identify the AP. To date, the historical work on the AP has been limited to non-Romance languages; for instance, Terrill (1997), Creissels (2012), Janic (2013), and Sansò (2017, 2019 identified the reflexive construction as one of several sources of the AP marker. These studies, however, do not look for supporting evidence from Romance; moreover, the current research on the Romance AP does not adopt a diachronic perspective.…”

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The antipassive as a Romance phenomenon: A case study of Italian

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A Half Century of Romance Linguistics: Selected Proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages

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This study focuses on the Italian pronominal verbs lamentarsi 'lament/complain', ricordarsi 'remember/remind', vantarsi 'praise/boast' and their transitive counterparts and analyzes their distribution from the 13 th to the 21 st century across different syntactic environments, with particular attention to logical object expressions. It explores the possibility of an antipassive (AP) analysis, thereby adding a Romance perspective to the growing research of the historical development of the AP. The pronominal constructions of the sample that select an oblique complement display structural characteristics typical of the AP. Namely, they contain a demoted logical object, are structurally intransitive and semantically transitive, mark the oblique using the preposition di, display a detransitivizing "AP morpheme" si, and have a transitive counterpart. For all three verb pairs, there is initially a high frequency of AP constructions (13 th -15 th centuries), followed by a decrease in favor of transitive constructions with a direct object complement.

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The antipassive as a Romance phenomenon: A case study of Italian

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Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

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Janic

Dermaku

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Frequency asymmetries within a minimal grammatical domain create offline associations that languages tend to exploit for a more efficient encoding. We explore cross-linguistic coding patterns of antipassives. We first argue that antipassive markers tend to have properties of derivational markers. Secondly, we show that antipassives are considerably rarer than the basic transitive constructions. The lower frequency correlates with the length of coding: antipassives tend to be coded with longer forms than basic transitive verbs. Thirdly, we explore frequency associations of different lexical input types and find that it is the rare input types that tend to select the antipassive, if the marking is differential, while the frequent ones correlate with the unmarked verb (A-lability). We, furthermore, show that the rarer argument types and argument scenarios correlate stronger with antipassives than the more frequent argument types and scenarios.

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The multifaceted nature of the antipassive construction

Janic

Witzlack-Makarevich

2021

Typological Studies in Language

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The present chapter opens the volume by proving an overview of the antipassive construction from the typological perspective. After setting the scene by introducing the major theoretical concepts used in this volume, we consider various aspects of the formal and functional variation of the antipassive construction. First, we show how the antipassive construction varies among languages with respect to the realization of the P argument. We then discuss various aspects of the antipassive marker, including its dedicatedness and obligatoriness, as well as its syncretism with other functions. This chapter also zooms in on various functions performed by the antipassive. In addition to semantic, discourse-pragmatic and syntactic functions commonly recognized in the literature, we also address a less typical stylistic function. Another parameter of variation discussed is the productivity of the antipassive. Finally, this chapter addresses the question of various constructions which formally or functionally overlap with antipassive constructions.

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The Slavonic Languages and the Development of the Antipassive Marker

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The antipassive as a Romance phenomenon: A case study of Italian

The antipassive as a Romance phenomenon: A case study of Italian

Typology of coding patterns and frequency effects of antipassives

The multifaceted nature of the antipassive construction

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