On the voice conformity in West Austronesian domain
Abstract
Voice conformity is compared in Tagalog, Old Javanese and Malay/Indonesian. Different meanings of patient are expressed in Tagalog and other Philippine languages by markers of different passive forms; in cognate languages of Western Indonesia, they are expressed by markers of transitivity combined with a common voice form, both in the passive and active. A historic shift from a multi-passive system to a multi-transitive one may have occurred to the south of the Philippines after 2000 BC. Grammatical transitivity in these languages is marked mono-semantically only in the passive form, while the active markers are also present in certain intransitive verbs. This feature appears historically stable.
Keywords:
passive, active, transitivity, language history, Tagalog, Old Javanese, Malay/Indonesian, West Austronesian
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