Re: Phaleran voices: active, passive, antipassive, etc.

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

> > Could this be interpreted as "The children were looked at"?
>
> Ag! You're right: it's ambiguous if you do not explicitly mention the demoted
> patient, and that won't do.  What's more, I should have realized that antipassives
> usually are marked explicitly and distinctly from other voices.  Here's a possible
> fix: the antipassive uses the the same detransitive suffix -(a)bro- as the passive,
> but it also uses a verbal prefix su-/sw-. E.g.
Changed my mind.  Here's the allomorphy for the antipassive prefix:

    /su/ -->

[s]: / stops and fricatives not homorganic in place of articulation.  Voiced segments
devoice after it:
     gethabronni                         skethabronni
     see.DETR.3PlPfRe.S    >    ANT.see.DETR.3PlPfRe.S
     'they were seen'                   'they saw'

     dmatabrolþa                                 stmatabrolþa
     carry-off.DETR.1PlExProsRe  >   ANT.carry-off.DETR.1PlExProsRe
     'we will be carried off'                   'we will carry off'

[sw]:  / vowels:
      aðneiþnubronni                         swaðneiþnubronni
      sit.CAUS.DETR.3PlPfRe.S  >  ANT.sit.CAUS.DETR.3PlPfRe.S
      'they were seated'                     'they seated'

[su]:  / s and z:
        saihabrotentha                                         susaihabrotentha
        avoid.DETR.NEG.3SgPfIr                >    ANT.avoid.DETR.NEG.3SgPfIr
        'he/she would not have been avoided'       'he/she would not have avoided'

[š]:   / hr, r, r| :
         hrontabroltâ?                                         šrontabroltâ?
         leave.DETR.1PlExProsIr.Ques          >  ANT.leave.DETR.1PlExProsIr.Ques
         'are we not going to been left behind?'    'are we not going to leave behind?'
        (the distinction between /hr/ and /r/ is neutralized in this context, but not uvular /r|/)

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

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