<div dir="ltr">In Yahgan, a nearly extinct genetic isolate from Tierra del Fuego, there is a 'circumstantial' voice prefix I write as T-, with various forms depending on following phonological contexts (that is, it is ch(i:) before /y/, /k/, /g/, /l/, tu: before labial stops or nasal, ts before other alveolar segments, etc., which can ambivalently mark the inclusion of an instrument, another non-core animate participant in the action, locations in space or time, and so forth. <div><br></div><div>Jess Tauber</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 8:42 PM Matthew Dryer <<a href="mailto:dryer@buffalo.edu">dryer@buffalo.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">David,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Why would you not say that the instrumental construction in Meyah, Sougb, and Hatam is an applicative, since the A rather than the instrument controls subject agreement?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Matthew<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> on behalf of David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" target="_blank">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, February 21, 2022 at 7:40 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] query: instrument voice<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the Austronesian languages of Taiwan, Philippines and Madagascar, there is a verbal affix that is said to mark "instrument voice"; loosely speaking, it marks the topic or subject
of the clause as bearing the semantic role of instrument.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is anybody familiar with similar instrument-voice constructions from other parts of the world?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The reason I ask is that a similar construction is present also in some languages of the Bird's Head and Cenderawasih Bay regions of New Guinea, eg. Biak, Roon, Wamesa and Wooi
(Austronesian), and Hatam, Sougb, Meyah and Moskona (non-Austronesian). What's curious about this construction is that, unlike the well-known Austronesian cases, it is the only morphologically-marked voice in each of the languages in question; there is no
"ordinary" morphological passive construction. My feeling is that this construction is quite uncommon cross-linguistically, but I would like to get a feel for the extent to which this is indeed true.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David<u></u><u></u></p>
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<pre>David Gil<u></u><u></u></pre>
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