32.2762, Books: Voice syncretism: Bahrt

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Subject: 32.2762, Books: Voice syncretism: Bahrt

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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:05:39
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Voice syncretism: Bahrt

Title: Voice syncretism 
Series Title: Research on Comparative Grammar  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/315 

Author: Nicklas N. Bahrt

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103195 Pages: 340 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access

Abstract:

This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism,
focusing on resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the
following seven voices: passives, antipassives, reflexives, reciprocals,
anticausatives, causatives, and applicatives. It covers voice syncretism from
both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and has been structured in a
manner that facilitates convenient access to information about specific
patterns of voice syncretism, their distribution and development. The book is
based on a survey of voice syncretism in 222 geographically and genealogically
diverse languages, but also thoroughly revisits previous research on the
phenomenon. Voice syncretism is approached systematically by establishing and
exploring patterns of voice syncretism that can logically be posited for the
seven voices of focus in the book: 21 simplex patterns when one considers two
of the seven voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal
syncretism), and 99 complex patterns when one considers more than two of the
voices sharing the same marking (e.g. reflexive-reciprocal-anticausative
syncretism). In a similar vein, 42 paths of development can logically be
posited if it is assumed that voice marking in each of the seven voices can
potentially develop one of the other six voice functions (e.g. reflexive voice
marking developing a reciprocal function). This approach enables the
discussion of both voice syncretism that has received considerable attention
in the literature (notably middle syncretism involving the reflexive,
reciprocal, anticausative and/or passive voices) and voice syncretism that has
received little or not treatment in the past (including seemingly
contradictory patterns such as causative-anticausative and passive-antipassive
syncretism). In the survey almost all simplex patterns are attested in
addition to seventeen complex patterns. In terms of diachrony, evidence is
presented and discussed for twenty paths of development. The book strives to
highlight the variation found in voice syncretism across the world’s languages
and encourage further research into the phenomenon.

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=156093

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