Table Of ContentErgativity, Valency and Voice
Empirical Approaches
to Language Typology
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Editors
Georg Bossong
Bernard Comrie
Yaron Matras
De Gruyter Mouton
Ergativity, Valency and Voice
edited by
Gilles Authier
Katharina Haude
De Gruyter Mouton
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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
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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]
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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.
