The So-Called Passive of Acehnese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2864604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Durie (0000-0003-2990-0937, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104 |
| Publication date | 1988-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/414788 |
| OpenAlex | W2315528546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 6 |
The Mon Tasiek dialect of Acehnese (Indonesia) was analysed by Lawler 1977 as having a passive in which the verb agrees with the initial, or underlying, subject. His argument was that the preverbal NP in Acehnese has the expected properties of a surface subject, but that verb agreement was controlled by the underlying subject—which, in ‘passive’ clauses, is not the preverbal NP. This analysis was based on limited and unrepresentative data. In the light of more extensive data, Lawler's claim that the preverbal NP in Acehnese acts as a final subject does not hold. The most obvious—and, for syntactic theory, the least problematic conclusion—is that the so-called ‘underlying’ subject is in fact a surface grammatical relation; Acehnese has no passive, and its verbal agreement is a surface phenomenon
Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Typology and universals
On the Questions of Acehnese 'Passive
What’s in a grammar
Dependency, Constituency, and Linear Order
Heads, Arguments, and Adjuncts
A Radical Approach to Syntactic Relations
Syntactic Theory and the Theory of Language
Syntactic Argumentation and Radical Construction Grammar
The Voice Continuum
Parts of Speech
Clausal Syntactic Roles (“Grammatical Relations”)
The Coordination—Subordination Continuum
Syntactic Categories and Semantic Relativity
Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Language and causation
Radical Construction Grammar
Agent demotion through inverted word order
The mosaic acquisition of grammatical relations
Subjects in Acehnese and the nature of the passive
Possibilities for Passives in Natural and Artificial Languages
Syntactic functions in Functional Discourse Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar
Towards a null theory of the passive
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2019 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |