Voice: Passives and Middles

• 영문명: Voice: Passives and Middles
• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Seungju Yeo
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제33권 제2호, 275~290쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.05.31

영문 초록

How a language encodes passive events affects how the middle semantics—the ascription of dispositions to a theme—morphosyntactically manifests in a language. This connection arises as both passives and middles are morphosyntactic manifestations of the functional head Voice, responsible for marking grammatical voice: middles and passives are substantiations of Voice[−D], with the demoted external argument. The systematic variations observed in middle sentences across languages boil down to how a language treats Voice and v. A Voice-splitting language posits Voice on top of v. This separate Voice is the locus for morphologically distinguishing actives from non-actives. Such a Voice-splitting language, thus, does not display the lability alternation in the middles. On the other hand, a Voice-bundling language lacks a separate functional head dedicated to grammatical Voice. It does not morphologically distinguish actives from non-actives, resulting in the lability alternation.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Crosslinguistic Variations in Middles

3. Discussion

4. Concluding Remarks

References

키워드

passives middles Voie synthetic analytic periphrasis