"This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the antipassive construction from synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. The nineteen contributions assembled in this volume address a wide range of aspects pertinent to the antipassive construction, such as lexical semantics, the properties of the antipassive markers, as well as the issue of fuzzy boundaries between the antipassive construction and a range of other formally and functionally similar constructions in a genealogically and areally diverse languages. Purely synchronically oriented case studies are supplemented by contributions that shed light on the diachronic development of the antipassive construction and the antipassive markers. The book should be of central interest to many scholars, in particular to those working in the field of language typology, semantics, syntax, and historical linguists, as well as to specialists of the language families discussed in the individual contributions"--.

• Antipassive
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. The multifaceted nature of the antipassive construction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Some terminological prerequisites
  • 3. Realization of the P argument
  • 4. The antipassive marker
    • 4.1 Variation of the antipassive marker
    • 4.2 Dedicatedness of the antipassive marker
    • 4.3 Syncretism of the antipassive marker
    • 4.4 (Non)-obligatoriness of the antipassive marker
  • 5. Functions of the antipassive construction
    • 5.1 Semantic and discourse-pragmatic functions
    • 5.2 Syntactic functions
    • 5.3 Stylistic functions
    • 5.4 General remarks on antipassive functions
  • 6. Productivity
  • 7. Related constructions
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Funding
  • References
• Part 1. Lexical semantics and event representation of antipassive constructions
• Chapter 2. Antipassive propensities and alignment
  • 1. Siouan languages
  • 2. Haida
  • 3. Pomoan
  • 4. Iroquoian
  • 5. Why the ergative-antipassive association?
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 3. Antipassive in the Cariban family
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Cariban detransitivized construction
    • 2.1 Categorizing detransitivized verbs
    • 2.2 Methodological questions
  • 3. Attested types of antipassive with the detransitivizer
    • 3.1 Antipassives with a nontopical P
    • 3.2 A radical type of antipassive: The apatientive
    • 3.3 The “locative” P
    • 3.4 Idiosyncratic antipassives
  • 4. Conclusion: Is this an ‘antipassive’ and how could it become (a better) one?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 4. Aspect and modality in Pama-Nyungan antipassives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Morphosyntactic properties of Pama-Nyungan antipassives
    • 2.1 Case
    • 2.2 Verb marking
    • 2.3 The antipassive object
    • 2.4 Exclusions
  • 3. Data from Pama-Nyungan languages
    • 3.1 Kalkatungu
    • 3.2 Warrongo
    • 3.3 Guugu Yimidhirr
    • 3.4 Dyirbal
    • 3.5 Pitta Pitta
    • 3.6 Mabuiag
    • 3.7 Kuku Yalanji
    • 3.8 Summary
  • 4. Aspectual analysis
    • 4.1 Parallels with imperfective aspect
    • 4.2 Predicate-internal aspect
    • 4.3 Modal approach to imperfectivity
  • 5. Technical implementation
  • 6. Alternative analyses
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 5. Antipassive constructions in Oceanic languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Object omission
  • 3. Different types of object incorporation
    • 3.1 Complete object incorporation
    • 3.2 Pseudo noun incorporation
    • 3.3 Transitivity discord
  • 4. Peripherization of the object
    • 4.1 Object peripherization in Polynesian languages
    • 4.2 Recessive voice
    • 4.3 Marking of the object to avoid ambiguity
  • 5. Middle derivation
    • 5.1 With reflexes of the POc *paRi- prefix
    • 5.2 “Auto-causative” constructions with POc prefix *paka-
    • 5.3 ‘Unergative derivation’, a type of derivation with a middle meaning
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 6. Antipassive and the lexical meaning of verbs
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The limits of natural antipassives
    • 2.1 Lexical lists
    • 2.2 Properties
    • 2.3 Inanimacy of the P-argument
  • 3. Natural antipassives and the lexical extent of antipassives
  • 4. Natural antipassives and syncretic antipassive markers
  • 5. Languages with multiple antipassive constructions
  • 6. Lexicalization of antipassives
    • 6.1 Lexical effects of antipassivization
    • 6.2 Coerced agentivity
    • 6.3 Semantic incorporation of the P-argument
  • 7. Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 7. Unspecified participant: A case of antipassive in Ainu
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Typological background
  • 3. Featuring i- as an antipassive, distinct from personal i-
    • 3.1 Standard use on verbs
    • 3.2 Extended (absolutive) use of i- on nouns and other parts of speech
  • 4. Synchronic properties of the antipassive i-
    • 4.1 Deriving antipassives
    • 4.2 Combinability of the antipassive i- with other voice markers
  • 5. Semantic profile of antipassive verbs
  • 6. Diachronic pathways and crosslinguistic evidence for the development of the i- antipassive
    • 6.1 ‘Fourth’ person markers: No parallelism between a(n)- (a)/-an (s) and i- (o)
    • 6.2 The diachronic source of the i- antipassive
    • 6.3 ‘Fourth’ person markers: What is the key function?
    • 6.4 Matching the antipassive i- and ‘fourth’ person i-: Cross-linguistic evidence
  • 7. Summary
  • Abbreviations
  • Source
  • References
• Part 2. Antipassive marking
• Chapter 8. Variation in the verbal marking of antipassive constructions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Segmental antipassive coding
    • 2.1 Syncretic and dedicated antipassivizers
    • 2.2 On the nature of antipassivizers
  • 3. Non-linear morphological antipassive coding
  • 4. Zero antipassive coding
  • 5. Diachronic sources of antipassivizers
    • 5.1 Reflexive and/or reciprocal markers
    • 5.2 Incorporation of the hypernym argument
    • 5.3 Agent nominalization
    • 5.4 Action nominalization
    • 5.5 Person markers
    • 5.6 Causative markers
  • 6. Summary and conclusions
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 9. Antipassive derivation in Soninke (West Mande)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Some basic aspects of Soninke clause structure
    • 2.1 Transitive and intransitive verbal predication
    • 2.2 Indexation and flagging of core syntactic terms
    • 2.3 Alignment
    • 2.4 Oblique arguments
    • 2.5 Transitivity marking
  • 3. Constraints on the expression of subjects and objects, and on the intransitive use of transitive verbs
  • 4. The derivational suffixes involved in antipassive constructions
    • 4.1 The detransitivizing suffix -i
    • 4.2 The antipassive suffix -ndì ~ -ndí
  • 5. The function and semantics of antipassive derivation
  • 6. Antipassive and object incorporation
  • 7. Causativization of antipassive verbs and antipassivization of causative verbs
  • 8. The origin of the suffixes involved in antipassivization
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 10. Explaining the antipassive-causative syncretism in Mocoví (Guaycuruan)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Linguistic family and typological profile of Mocoví
    • 2.1 Guaycuruan family and Mocoví data
    • 2.2 Nominal and verbal phrases
  • 3. The synchrony of -aɢan
    • 3.1 The -aɢan antipassive
    • 3.2 The -aɢan causative
    • 3.3 The -aɢan-aɢan combination: Antipassive + causative
    • 3.4 Other intransitive causativizers: -aɢat and -aɢat-it
  • 4. The -aɢan formation and its evolution
    • 4.1 The nominalizer -aɢa
    • 4.2 The verbalizer -n and its verbal source
    • 4.3 The -aɢan evolutionary scenario
  • 5. The origin of causative and antipassive markers beyond Mocoví
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Abbreviations and symbols
  • References
• Chapter 11. Polyfunctional vanka- in Nivaĉle and the antipassive category
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic facts of Nivaĉle grammar
  • 3. The antipassive construction
    • 3.1 vanka- with transitive bases
    • 3.2 vanka- with ditransitive bases
    • 3.3 The semantics of vanka- constructions
  • 4. Beyond the antipassive function: vanka- on intransitive stems
  • 5. Source of the vanka- antipassive construction
    • 5.1 The ka portion
    • 5.2 The van portion
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Part 3. Diachrony of antipassive constructions
• Chapter 12. The antipassive and its relationship to person markers
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. On the diachrony of antipassives
    • a. Agent nominalizations
    • b. Action/result nominalization
    • c. Reflexives and/or reciprocals
    • d. Generic nouns
  • 3. Collection and analysis of the data
  • 4. Antipassives and person markers across macro-areas
    • 4.1 Africa
    • 4.2 Eurasia
    • 4.3 North America
    • 4.4 South America
    • 4.5 Pacific
    • 4.6 Australia
  • 5. Pathways
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glosses
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 13. Antipassive derivations in Sino-Tibetan/Trans-Himalayan and their sources
  • Introduction
  • 1. Antipassive and indefinite objects
    • 1.1 Agent-preserving lability
    • 1.2 Indefinite/generic objects
    • 1.3 Light verb construction
    • 1.4 Noun incorporation
  • 2. Incorporation of generic noun / indefinite element
  • 3. Action nominalization + denominal verbalization
  • 4. Reflexive/Middle
    • 4.1 Kiranti
    • 4.2 Dulong-Rawang
    • 4.3 Kuki-Chin
    • 4.4 West Himalayish
    • 4.5 Old Chinese
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 14. The profile and development of the Maa (Eastern Nilotic) antipassive
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic Maa morphosyntax
  • 3. The Maa antipassive
    • 3.1 Syntax and propositional semantics of the -ɪshɔ(r) construction with (di)transitive roots
    • 3.2 Functional profile of the -ɪshɔ(r) construction
  • 4. -ɪshɔ(r) with intransitive roots
  • 5. Origin of the Maa antipassive
    • 5.1 Parallels with the Maa verb root ɪshɔ(r) ‘give’
    • 5.2 Possible cognacy with other Nilotic antipassive(-like) morphology
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • Funding
  • References
• Part 4. Fuzzy boundaries
• Chapter 15. Indirect antipassive in Circassian
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Typologically relevant features of Circassian languages
  • 3. The morphology of the Circassian antipassive
    • 3.1 Marked antipassive
    • 3.2 Unmarked antipassive
    • 3.3 The issue of directionality and formal marking
  • 4. Antipassive and the verbal lexicon
  • 5. Syntax, semantics and pragmatics of antipassivization in Circassian
  • 6. Typological outlook and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 16. Antipassives in Nakh-Daghestanian languages: Exploring the margins of a construction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Avar-Andic-Tsezic languages
    • 2.1 Godoberi
    • 2.2 Tsezic
    • 2.3 Avar
  • 3. Dargwa languages
    • 3.1 Akusha and Sanzhi Dargwa: Syntactic properties
    • 3.2 Akusha and Sanzhi Dargwa: Semantics and pragmatics
    • 3.3 Antipassives in other Dargwa languages
  • 4. Antipassives and other detransitivizing operations in Nakh-Daghestanian languages
  • 5. The main tenets of the antipassive constructions in Nakh-Daghestanian
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 17. Antipassive and antipassive-like constructions in Mayan languages
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background on Mayan
    • 2.1 Verb structure and alignment
    • 2.2 Transitivity
    • 2.3 Word order and syntax
  • 3. Antipassive-like structures
    • 3.1 Absolutive constructions
    • 3.2 Agent focus (AF)
    • 3.3 Incorporative constructions
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 18. When an antipassive isn’t an antipassive anymore: The Actor Voice construction in Kelabit
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Antipassives
  • 3. The av construction in Tagalog and the Philippines
    • 3.1 Morphosyntax
    • 3.2 Semantics
    • 3.3 Discourse
    • 3.4 Summary
  • 4. The av construction in Kelabit
    • 4.1 Morphosyntax
    • 4.2 Semantics
    • 4.3 Discourse
    • 4.4 Summary
  • 5. Discussion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Appendix
• Chapter 19. Antipassivization in Basque revisited
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basque
  • 3. Ergative displacement
  • 4. Biclausal constructions
    • 4.1 Ari-progressives
    • 4.2 Participial clauses
  • 5. The lexically constrained antipassive
    • 5.1 The LCA with psych-verbs
    • 5.2 The LCA with mintzatu and other verba dicendi
  • 6. Discussion and concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Index