[Lingtyp] COME-passives

[Sergey Loesov]

*Dear colleagues,*

Are you aware of *COME-passives* in any of the world’s languages? In
Kurmanji, a North-West Iranian language, the passive voice is formed using
the verb *hatin* (‘to come’), which is fully conjugated for all TAM forms,
followed by the infinitive. This construction appears to be *diachronically
young*, because Kurmanji has a split ergative alignment. Its preterit base
(from which the infinitive seems to be formed secondarily) is a reflex of
the *PIU resultative participle in -ta*, and the choice between the
ergative and the absolutive depends entirely on the inherent transitivity
of the verb.

Thank you very much,

Sergey
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