Personal and impersonal passives in Seri
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1979
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pages 99-124
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From the introduction: "In this paper I will examine and discuss passive constructions in Seri. My purpose will be basically two-fold: first, to present descriptive and typological facts concerning these constructions. My second purpose is to discuss how these facts should be accounted for in an explicit grammar. The paper is divided into three major sections in which alternative treatments of these clauses are discussed. In order to compare these alternatives, I will make them explicit in terms of relational grammar (Perlmutter (1978a, 1978b, in press, to appear), Perlmutter and Postal (1977, in press a, in press b, to appear)). [...] I will argue in favor of the universal characterization of passives and impersonal passives proposed by Perlmutter and Postal (1977, to appear) and Perlmutter (1978a, 1978b)."
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Published
Table of Contents:
O. Introduction
1. The basic data
2. Passive vs. Active
2.1 Argument one: Person agreement
2.2 Argument two: First person subject prefix allomorphy
2.3 Argument three: Object prefixes
2.4 Argument four: Number agreement
2.5 Argument five: relativization
2.6 Argument six: The object marker in relative clauses
3. Bistratal vs. Monostratal
3.1 Previous rules
3.2 Interaction with 3-2 Advancement
3.3 Argument one: First person subject allomorphy
3.4 Argument two: Infinitive allomorphy
3.5 Conclusion
4. Impersonal passives
4.1 Plural nominals
4.2 Argument one: Third person subject marker
4.3 Argument two: Number agreement
4.4 Argument three: The constraint on the advancement of plural nominals
4.5 Conclusion
5. Conclusions
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Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota, vol. 23
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40100