The Double Duty of the Sakha "Passive"
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22224140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamisha Lauren Tan (0000-0002-1640-9383, Harvard University), Niels Torben Kühlert (0009-0001-9810-9199, Harvard University Press) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 140 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2641-3485 • E-ISSN: 2641-3485 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/ptu.v5i1.4768 |
| OpenAlex | W3133194298 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper argues that the Sakha passive morpheme -IlIn- is the fossilised outcome of a bimorphemic 'passive of passive' construction still found in Modern Turkish. While this reanalyzed form is surface homophonous between passive and impersonal functions, we show that the two uses can be differentiated via several syntactic diagnostics and that the Sakha impersonal construction supports the existence of a syntactically-projected impersonal prounoun that may serve as Case Competitor and control/be controlled PRO. At the same time, the diachronic account presented in this paper has important implications for the reconstruction of the Common Turkic voice system and the status of ImpersP and VoiceP as distinct functional projections, instead suggesting that impersonal passive constructions involve iteration of VoiceP
Arithmetic · Duty · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Morpheme · Passive voice · Political science · Turkish · Computer Science · Law · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |