Timothy McKinnon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6112649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy McKinnon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | McKinnon |
| SIGNATURE | MCKINNON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Development of Agent-demoting passives in Malayic
The di-passive in Malay/Indonesian and other Malayic languages is clearly a European-type agent demotion passive; the agent, nevertheless, unexpectedly exhibits grammatical properties which are cross-linguistically typical of arguments and unusual for adjuncts. We explain the unusual properties of di-passive agents by arguing for the analysis of the di-passive construction as deriving historically from a Philippine-type voice construction in whic…
Object agreement and ‘pro-drop’ in Kerinci Malay
Kerinci is a group of grammatically diverse Malayic varieties spoken in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. This article focuses on a previously undescribed dialect of Kerinci, spoken in the village of Tanjung Pauh Mudik (TPM). Many Kerinci dialects have developed a morphological alternation in root-final syllables as a result of stress-related diachronic changes. In TPM, as in Sungai Penuh Kerinci (described by Steinhauer and Usman (1978), inter…
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Object agreement and ‘pro-drop’ in Kerinci Malay
Kerinci is a group of grammatically diverse Malayic varieties spoken in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. This article focuses on a previously undescribed dialect of Kerinci, spoken in the village of Tanjung Pauh Mudik (TPM). Many Kerinci dialects have developed a morphological alternation in root-final syllables as a result of stress-related diachronic changes. In TPM, as in Sungai Penuh Kerinci (described by Steinhauer and Usman (1978), inter…
The Development of Agent-demoting passives in Malayic
The di-passive in Malay/Indonesian and other Malayic languages is clearly a European-type agent demotion passive; the agent, nevertheless, unexpectedly exhibits grammatical properties which are cross-linguistically typical of arguments and unusual for adjuncts. We explain the unusual properties of di-passive agents by arguing for the analysis of the di-passive construction as deriving historically from a Philippine-type voice construction in whic…
Computer Science (2 works) · Alternation (linguistics) (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · History (1 work) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (1 work) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 work) · Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Malay (1 work)