Maldivian Prototypical Passives and Related Constructions  

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CAIN, BRUCE D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 37 no. 4 (1995), page 524-540.
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Maldivian (Dhivehi), like Sinhala, features a derivational process whereby active/volitive verbs are related to inactive/involitive verbs (IN- verbs). These IN-verbs occur in three different constructions in both languages: involitive, accidental, and inactive. Only in Dhivehi, however, do the IN-verbs also occur in prototypical passive constructions. This situation suggests a strong relationship between these constructions and the passive, which can be accounted for by adopting a prototypical approach to the passive, whose primary pragmatic function would be agent defocusing. Such IN-constructions, which can be regarded as "passive-related," differ in various degrees from the prototypical passive.

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