Voice Marking and Case Marking Systems

Jeudi 28 Juin 2018, 16:00 to 18:00
Invité: 
Edward Keenan (UCLA, invité Labex EFL)
Organisation: 
Heather Burnett (LLF)
Lieu: 

ODG – Salle 311

Edward Keenan (UCLA)
Voice Marking and Case Marking Systems

The syntactic role of rich voice systems (Philippines, Malagasy, Kwakwala), anti-passive in ergative languages (Mayan; Djirbal) and applicatives (in e.g. Bantu). Voice marking, in both nominative and ergative languages may function to make verbal arguments accessible to relative clause formation (usually head initial; in one case we know of head final; no head internal to our knowledge).  Advancement of obliques to object feeds passive which feeds relative clause formation. 

Readings

  • Keenan, E.L. and M.S. Dryer. 2007. Passive in the world’s languages.  In Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Vol 1, 2nd edition. Tim Shopen (ed) CUP.  Pp. 325 – 361
  • Keenan, E.L. 2013. Passives and Antipassives. In The Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax. Pp. 240 – 260.
  • Polinsky, Maria. 2018. Syntactic Ergativity.  The Companion to Syntax 2nd edition.  Martin Everaert and Henk van Riemsdijk. John Wiley & Sons. 2017.