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Re: Inverse marking (was: Kijeb text uploaded)

From:Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...>
Date:Saturday, April 22, 2006, 16:55
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:39:08 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
wrote:
[snip]
>But they are still all in the Americas, right?
[snip] Well, all the ones _I_ could think of were; but I looked around and found some more. Apparently both Maasai and Modern Greek are among languages some people consider to have "inverse systems". Maasai is East African; Chamorro is Micronesian; Dzamba is Bantu; Kimbundu is African; Chepang is Nepalese; Cebuano is Philippine; and Modern Greek is Indo-European. The bibliography of http://ninacat.tranzfusion.net/Voice%20and%20Inverse%20Systems.pdf lists, among others, the folowing two works: Doris Payne and Mitsuyo Hamaya and Peter Jacobs (1994), "Active, Inverse, and Passive in Maasai". Katy Roland (1994) "The Pragmatics of Modern Greek Voice: Active, Inverse, and Passive". It also contains the following list of example languages. I. Purely Pragmatic Inverse Clause I.A. Purely Word-Order Inverse Chepang Modern Greek Korean Biblical Hebrew Cebuano Maasai-I I.B. Mixed Word-Order and Pronominal Inverse Kimbundu Dzamba Sahaptin-I I.C. Purely Pronominal-Morphological Inverse Kokuyon II. Shared Pragmatic-Semantic Inverse Clause II.A. Purely Word-Order Inverse none II.B. Mixed Word-Order and Pronominal Inverse Chamorro in- Squamish Bella Coola probably Plains Cree II.C. Purely Pronominal-Morphological Inverse Kutenai? III. Purely Semantic Inverse Clause III.A. Purely Word-Order Inverse none III.B. Mixed Word-Order and Pronominal Inverse Sahaptin-II III.C. Purely Pronominal-Morphological Inverse Maasai-II Tupi-Guarani ----- If you're in the mood to read a _long_ work, look at http://www.dissertationen.unizh.ch/2003/zuniga/zuniga02.pdf ---- eldin