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Ergativity, Valency and Voice Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 48 Editors Georg Bossong Bernard Comrie Yaron Matras De Gruyter Mouton Ergativity, Valency and Voice edited by Gilles Authier Katharina Haude De Gruyter Mouton ISBN 978-3-11-022772-7 e-ISBN 978-3-11-022773-4 ISSN 0933-761X LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenappliedforattheLibraryofCongress. BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.dnb.de. (cid:2)2012WalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,Berlin/Boston Typesetting:RoyalStandard,HongKong Printing:Hubert&Co.GmbH&Co.KG,Göttingen (cid:2)Printedonacid-freepaper PrintedinGermany www.degruyter.com Table of contents List of contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gilles Authier and Katharina Haude Ergativity and voice in Mayan languages: a functional-typological approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Colette Grinevald and Marc Peake Ergativity and the passive in three Mayan languages. . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Valentina Vapnarsky, Ce´dric Becquey, and Aurore Monod Becquelin A tale of two passives in Cavinen˜a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Antoine Guillaume The detransitive voice in Kryz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Gilles Authier Laz middle voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Rene´ Lacroix Argument demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Guillaume Jacques The Katukina-Kanamari antipassive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Francesc Queixalo´s Undergoer orientation in Movima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Katharina Haude Case patterns and verb classes in Trumai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Aurore Monod Becquelin and Ce´dric Becquey Ergativity in the Adyghe system of valency-changing derivations. . . 323 Alexander Letuchiy vi Tableofcontents The evolution of transitive verbs in Basque and emergence of dative-marked patients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Ce´line Mounole Index of subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 Index of languages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 List of contributors GillesAuthier GuillaumeJacques InstitutNationaldeLangueset CentredeRechercesLinguistiquessur CulturesOrientales l’AsieOrientale,EHESS,CNRS 65ruedesGrandsMoulins 131BoulevardSaint-Michel 75013Paris 75005Paris [email protected] France [email protected] Ce´dricBecquey LaboratoiredePhone´tiqueet Rene´ Lacroix Phonologie LanguesetCivilisationsa` Tradition Universite´ SorbonneNouvelle – Orale,CNRS Paris3 7rueGuyMoˆquet 19ruedesBernardins 94801VillejuifCedex 75005Paris France France [email protected] [email protected] AlexanderLetuchiy ColetteGrinevald NationalResearchUniversityHigher DynamiqueduLangage,CNRS& SchoolofEconomics Universite´ Lyon2 Khitrovskiysidestreet,house2/8, 14avenueBerthelot building5 69363LyonCedex07 109028Moscow France Russia [email protected] [email protected] AntoineGuillaume AuroreMonodBecquelin DynamiqueduLangage,CNRS& Laboratoired’Ethnologieetde Universite´ Lyon2 SociologieComparative,CNRS 14avenueBerthelot MaisonRene´ Ginouve`s(MAE) 69363LyonCedex07 21alle´edel’Universite´ France 92023Nanterre [email protected] France [email protected] KatharinaHaude Structureetdynamiquedeslangues, Ce´lineMounole CNRS,INALCO,IRD HizkuntzalaritzaetaEuskalIkasketak 7rueGuyMoˆquet Saila 94801VillejuifCedex UnibertsitatekoIbilbidea,5 France 01006Vitoria-Gasteiz [email protected] France [email protected] viii Listofcontributors MarcPeake ValentinaVapnarsky DynamiqueduLangage,CNRS& CentreEREA – Laboratoired’Ethno- Universite´ Lyon2 logieetdeSociologieComparative, 14avenueBerthelot CNRS 69363LyonCedex07 7rueGuyMoquet France 94801VillejuifCedex France FrancescQueixalo´s [email protected] Structureetdynamiquedeslangues, CNRS,INALCO,IRD 7rueGuyMoˆquet 94801VillejuifCedex France [email protected] Introduction Gilles Authier and Katharina Haude 1. Preliminaries1 This volume explores voice phenomena in a substantial sample of lan- guages with predominantly ergative features, some of them already well studied, others less so. All the findings presented here are based on first- hand data and personal fieldwork in speech communities. The articles take up and elaborate on oral presentations given at the monthly seminar Ergativite´:typologie,diachronieetcognition,whichtookplacebetween2005 and2009inVillejuif(Paris)underthedirectionofFrancescQueixalo´sand with the financial support of the Fe´de´ration de Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques of the CNRS, whose major purpose is to bring together lin- guists with first-hand experience of languages with ergative features from di¤erent parts of the world. 2. Ergativity Ergativealignment – definedastheformalsinglingoutoftheagent(A)of transitive verbs as opposed to the patient (P) of transitive verbs and the single argument of intransitive verbs (S) – can be found at many levels of grammar,bothinthemarkingofgrammaticalrelationsandatthesyntactic level (within a single clause or in interclausal relations). The former is usually referred to as ‘‘morphological ergativity’’, while the latter, along with ergative alignment in terms of constituency and reflexive control, is called ‘‘syntactic ergativity’’ (Dixon 1994). At the clause level, ergative alignment can be recognized in the morpho- logicalencodingof cross-reference pronounson thepredicateorin theuse 1. The editors (names are in alphabetical order) wish to express their gratitude to Steven Kaye for accepting the task of checking the English of the articles writtenbynon-nativespeakers.HaudeacknowledgesthesupportoftheDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (HA 5910/1-1) during the course of this project. We thank F. Queixalo´s and Anna Siewierska for helpful comments on this intro- duction. Needless to say, all mistakes and shortcomings are entirely our own responsibility.
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