query: looking for a language with a particular typological profile

[John at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL]

Dear David,
What exactly do you mean by the `second passive construction'
in Indonesian?
Best,
John




Quoting David Gil <gil at eva.mpg.de>:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm looking for examples of languages spoken in Indonesia with the
> following typological profile:
>
> (a) SVO basic word order
>
> (b) overt morphological marking of core grammatical relations
> (subject/object or agent patient), by means of case marking or
> prepositions, or verbal voice, or both.
>
> Outside of Indonesia there are plenty of such languages:  Russian,
> Martuthinira etc.  But I am not familiar with any examples of such
> languages in Indonesia.
>
> Standard Indonesian would meet the above conditions if not for the
> so-called "second passive" construction, of the form [Patient Agent
> Verb], where the verb is bare, without any voice morphology.
>
> "Philippine-type" languages meet the second condition, but with their
> verb-initial word order they fail the first.
>
> If you know of any such languages, I would be very grateful for the
> information.
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
> --
> David Gil
>
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