Antipassive in Austronesian alignment change
Antipassive in Austronesian alignment change
This chapter proposes that an ergative language becomes split-ergative by a reanalysis of its antipassive construction as syntactically transitive. A split-ergative language then can evolve into an accusative language through the further reanalysis of transitive ergative clauses as passive. It illustrates this continuum with the ergative language Tagalog, the split-ergative languages Malagasy and Seediq, and the predominantly accusative standard Indonesian.
Keywords: ergative language, split-ergative language, antipassive construction, accusative language, Tagalog, Malagasy, Seediq, Indonesian
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