Agentless Transitive Verbs in Georgian  

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Tuite, Kevin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 51 no. 3-4 (2009), page 269-295.
Fulltext: 40929716.pdf (2.14MB)

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The Georgianlanguage Georgian has anunusual abundance of indirect (dative-subject) verbs. Most of these are intransitive, but several dozen are formally transitive. The focus of this article is on the subset of Georgian indirect transitives that lack overt meshiver'). grammatical subjects (e.g.,'I Thesemantic,morphological, agentless transitives are presentedand shiver',lit.,*it makes andsyntactic features of Georgian compared to those of similar verb types from other languages.Of tion verbs, such as particular interest is a small *yawn' and 'belch', that are group of paired with bodily emana- syntactically inverse direct- transitive verb forms. A scenario is reconstructed for the origin of such direct-indirect pairings, which are otherwise unknown in Georgia.

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