Voice and v :Lessons from Acehnese

Publication subTitle :Lessons from Acehnese

Author: Legate   Julie Anne  

Publisher: MIT Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9780262320559

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780262526609

Subject: H631.2 Indonesian language (Indonesian)

Keyword: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax

Language: ENG

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Voice and v

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In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. Legate further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through minor variations in the properties of VoiceP, Legate explains a wide range of non-canonical voice constructions, including: agent-agreeing passives, grammatical object passives, impersonals, object voice constructions, and applicative voice in causatives. Her analysis draws on data from a typologically diverse set of languages, not only Malayo-Polynesian, but also Celtic, Scandinavian, and Slavic. Voice and v provides a detailed investigation into the syntactic structure of an understudied Malayo-Polynesian language, and thereby reveals important insights for the theoretical analysis of voice and the verb phrase. Moreover, the work applies and broadens these insights to a range of related passive-like constructions crosslinguistically. Voice and v thus joins a handful of model volumes that enlist typological depth and breadth to further our development of modern linguistic theory.

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