Channel PERFECTIVE > MIDDLE

[Enrique L. Palancar]

Dear Diego, Apart from the very good references already given, there is also a PhD Thesis "La categoría de voz en el sistema verbal indoeuropeo" by Miguel Villanueva, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in which the topic is also discussed.E.
Enrique L. Palancar
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:02:03 -0600
From: jquesad at UNA.AC.CR
Subject: Channel PERFECTIVE > MIDDLE
To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG










Dear colleagues,


Does anyone know of a language in which the (former) marker of perfective aspect became a marker of middle voice? In Bocotá, a language of Panama, the marker -du has been described as a marker of perfective aspect (Gunn 1975), while in Buglere, a dialect of Bocotá, spoken in Southwestern Panama and Costa Rica, it clearly behaves as a marker of middle voice. While it is not difficult to trace the likely semantic reanalysis underlying this change, I would like to know if this has been attested elsewhere.


Thanks 


Diego


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Prof. Dr. J. Diego Quesada 

Escuela de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 

Universidad Nacional 

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