The (non)canonical status of the ka - passive in Balinese

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ID21226862
AuthorsI Nyoman Udayana (0000-0002-4784-0598, Udayana University), Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg (0000-0002-2047-8621, Udayana University), Ida Ayu Made Puspani (0000-0002-0707-565X, Udayana University)
Year2025
Volume11
Issue1
Pages103-117
Publication date2025-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics Vanguard (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2199-174X • E-ISSN: 2199-174X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/lingvan-2023-0122
OpenAlexW4409371044
LanguageEN
References cited19

In Balinese, a noncanonical passive construction exists alongside the canonical passive. This noncanonical form shares some properties with the canonical passive but differs in key ways, particularly in expressing an unintentional agent. This study explores this construction, similar to the English get passive, by compiling a corpus of Balinese passives from storybooks and conducting grammaticality judgment tests. Results reveal that the ka- passive is incompatible with agent-oriented adverbials and purposive clauses, and contrasts semantically with the -a passive, which marks accomplishments. The ka- passive, associated with achieved states in Austronesian languages, often appears as a high-register or polite form, suggesting its (non)canonical status is gradient due to language change

Geography · Physics · Environmental Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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