Re: THEORY: Verb voice
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 2, 1999, 2:59 |
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:34:54 -0400, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>Reciprocative ("each other"), antipassive (the ergative version of
>passive; makes an ergative into an absolutive). I have something I call
>a voice, I don't know if that would be the proper term, in Waty=E1=EDsa,
>which I term the Dative-Object Voice, which turns the indirect object
>into the object; that is, dative to absolutive. I call it a voice
>because it seems analogous to the antipassive, which makes *ergative*
>into absolutive.
That's probably as good a term as any; I call it the passive voice in
Jarrda, since Jarrda doesn't have an actual passive voice, and the
corresponding English version looks similar to the passive (I gave you =
the
book -> you were given the book by me), in Jarrda:
zhumean zira thlir lon -> zhumkhean thlire zira lo.
give-PAST/PERF. I-ERG. book-ABS. you-DAT ->
give-PASSIVE-PAST/PERF. book-GEN. I-ERG. you-ABS.
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