Re: Passive and active....
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 28, 1999, 4:18 |
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On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:20:55 -0800, Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:
>So, how do all of your languages handle active and passive voice, if at
>all?
Olaetyan distinguishes them only in the participles:
active participles: -lé (present), -içò (future)
passive participles: -é (past), -içé (future)
Jarrda, since it's an ergative language, has an antipassive voice, with the
basic ending -vi (which combines with the tense and aspect endings). See
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/Jarda/ergativity.html for an explanation. I also
have what I call a "passive" voice in Jarrda, but there's probably a better
term for it: it takes the indirect object and puts it in the absolutive
case (nearest English equivalent: "I gave him the book" -> "He was given
the book").
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