Studies in voice and transitivity
Résumé
This volume is dedicated to new theoretical and empirical insights into the behavior of
transitive (valency)-affecting mechanisms such as passives, causatives, antipassives,
resultative and middles. All contributions are functionally oriented, seeking explanations
for the phenomena studied in the interaction between form and function. The complex
cross-linguistic relations of the mechanisms in the domain of transitivity and voice still
require more studies on distinct languages as well as new theoretical reflexions looking
forward new explanations. The three first papers in the volume all address general issues
involving passives, and the remainder describes mechanisms of voice and transitivity in
particular languages or groups of related languages, several of them from the Uto-Aztecan
family: Pima Bajo, Tarahumara, Yaqui, Warihio, one of an isolated language Purepecha,
two deal with languages from Argentina, Toba and Mapudungun or Mapuche; antipassives
in Spanish is also considered. In the following we provide brief summaries of the
individual contributions.
The papers are:
What is a Passive?
Bernard Comrie
On the relational properties of passive clauses: A diachronic perspective
T. Givón
Valency-reduction in event-oriented languages
Søren Wichmann
Case studies in Uto-Aztecan and other languages
Participios estativos en yaqui y mecanismos de detransitivización
Albert Álvarez González
Antipasivas en español. Forma y función
Sergio Bogard
Derivación causativa en toba
Marisa Censabella
Looking for a new participant. The Purepecha passive
Claudine Chamoreau
Causatives and applicatives in Pima Bajo:
The interplay of the causative and the applicative in sociative causation
Zarina Estrada Fernández
The passive in the Taracahitic languages Yaqui, Warihio and Tarahumara
Rolando Félix Armendáriz
La voz media en la lengua mapuche
Ana Fernández Garay
Yaqui causation: its form-function interface
Lilián Guerrero
transitive (valency)-affecting mechanisms such as passives, causatives, antipassives,
resultative and middles. All contributions are functionally oriented, seeking explanations
for the phenomena studied in the interaction between form and function. The complex
cross-linguistic relations of the mechanisms in the domain of transitivity and voice still
require more studies on distinct languages as well as new theoretical reflexions looking
forward new explanations. The three first papers in the volume all address general issues
involving passives, and the remainder describes mechanisms of voice and transitivity in
particular languages or groups of related languages, several of them from the Uto-Aztecan
family: Pima Bajo, Tarahumara, Yaqui, Warihio, one of an isolated language Purepecha,
two deal with languages from Argentina, Toba and Mapudungun or Mapuche; antipassives
in Spanish is also considered. In the following we provide brief summaries of the
individual contributions.
The papers are:
What is a Passive?
Bernard Comrie
On the relational properties of passive clauses: A diachronic perspective
T. Givón
Valency-reduction in event-oriented languages
Søren Wichmann
Case studies in Uto-Aztecan and other languages
Participios estativos en yaqui y mecanismos de detransitivización
Albert Álvarez González
Antipasivas en español. Forma y función
Sergio Bogard
Derivación causativa en toba
Marisa Censabella
Looking for a new participant. The Purepecha passive
Claudine Chamoreau
Causatives and applicatives in Pima Bajo:
The interplay of the causative and the applicative in sociative causation
Zarina Estrada Fernández
The passive in the Taracahitic languages Yaqui, Warihio and Tarahumara
Rolando Félix Armendáriz
La voz media en la lengua mapuche
Ana Fernández Garay
Yaqui causation: its form-function interface
Lilián Guerrero