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Voice and V: Lessons from Acehnese

Voice and V: Lessons from Acehnese

Legate, Julie Anne

Paperback

Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 69

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 0262526603
ISBN13: 9780262526609
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Oct 24 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.01 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
An investigation of the syntactic structure of voice and v, using Acehnese (Malayo-Polynesian) as the empirical starting point.

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.

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