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<p>Thanks, Jess. For this to qualify as instrument voice, it would
have to be clear that the instrument is more like a subject than
an object; otherwise — cf. Matthew Dryer's comment and my response
— it would be more appropriately characterized as an applicative.
Can you confirm this?<br>
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<p>Also, as you describe it below, the semantics seems substantially
broader than that of a pure instrument, though to be honest, there
is also semantic leakage in so-called instrumental voice
constructions in Taiwan and the Philippines, and perhaps also,
though to a lesser extent, in some of the constructions in the New
Guinea languages that I mentioned below.</p>
<p>David</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/02/2022 04:05, Jess Tauber wrote:<br>
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<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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">David,</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?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Matthew</span></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] query: instrument voice</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,</p>
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<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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is anybody familiar with similar
instrument-voice constructions from other parts of the
world?</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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">David</p>
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