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Middle voice and ideophones, a diachronic connection: The case of Yurakaré
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- Source: Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”, Volume 34, Issue 2, Jan 2010, p. 273 - 297
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Abstract
Kemmer (1993) argues that middle voice markers almost always arise diachronically through the semantic extension of a reflexive marker to other semantic uses related to reflexive. In this paper I will argue for an alternative diachronic path that has led to the development of the middle marker in Yurakaré (unclassified, Bolivia): through ideophone-verb constructions. Taking this perspective helps explain a number of synchronic peculiarities of the middle marker in Yurakaré, and it introduces a previously unnoticed channel for middle voice markers to arise.
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