Re: Inverse marking (was: Kijeb text uploaded)

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

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If you're in the mood to read a _long_ work, look at
http://www.dissertationen.unizh.ch/2003/zuniga/zuniga02.pdf

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eldin