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Identifier:

TI006B2010

Title

[Correlates to Middle Marking in Dena’ina Iterative Verbs]

Description:

Correlates to Middle Marking in Dena’ina Iterative Verbs; Abstract from IJAL:

"While recent studies have attempted to find a unified motivation for the Athabaskan middle voice, middle marking in iterative verbs, which are sometimes middles, is generally less well understood than in other middle constructions. Scholars have cited syntactic intransitivity, semantics, or some combination thereof as motivation for when iteratives are marked as middles. In this paper, we present a quantitative analysis of iteratives from traditional Dena’ina (Athabaskan, Alaska) narratives. This analysis strongly suggests that while grammatical transitivity plays a role in the triggering of overt morphological marking of middles, verb meaning plays an even more important overall role, and thus supports the assumption of a semantically unified class of middle verbs. More specifically, we show that in Dena’ina iterative verbs, middle marking is more likely to occur when the spatial starting and ending points of the action of the verb are undifferentiated."

Citation

Correlates to Middle Marking in Dena’ina Iterative Verbs

Andrea L. Berez and Stefan Th. Gries

International Journal of American Linguistics

Vol. 76, No. 1 (January 2010) (pp. 145-165)

Contributors

Berez, Andrea (author)
Gries, Stefan Th. (author)

Date

2010-01-00

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Subject Language(s)

Dena'ina

Files:

Correlates.PDF
Correlates_version01.PDF
Correlates_version02.PDF

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