Detail Voice and Aspect: Some Notes from Malaysian Malay   Oleh:  Soh, Hooi Ling Jenis: Article from Books Dalam koleksi: NUSA: Linguistics Studies of Language in and around Indonesia Volume 54: Voice Variation in Austronesian Languages of Indonesia, page 159-173. Fulltext: Hooi Ling SOH.pdf (296.92KB) Isi artikel The Malay verbal prefix meN- is widely assumed to be an active voice marker, but in recent years Soh and Nomoto have demonstrated that it exhibits aspectual effects. As a result, questions have been raised about the extent to which meN- should be analysed as an active voice marker. In this paper, I argue against treating meN- as a voice marker and show how the properties of meN- that have been attributed to its active voice status can be given alternative accounts. While the aspectual effects of meN- do not support its treatment as a voice marker, they are compatible with current syntactic analyses treating meN- as heading vP (more specifically v*P) or VoiceP, to the extent that these projections are associated with the existence of an external argument. The analysis thus implies that the syntactic projections of v*P or VoiceP are not necessarily tied to grammatical voice, and they may have aspectual properties. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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