Preverbal Determiners and the Passive in Moriori

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

OCEANIC LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-03-22 DOI:10.1353/ol.2023.0003

J. Middleton

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Abstract

Abstract:This paper examines the curious occurrence of preverbal determiners in Moriori (Chatham Islands), which are best analyzed as passive markers. In some Moriori sentences, a determiner is found following the clause-initial tense/aspect particle and preceding the verb. Examining the morphological markings of the arguments in these sentences shows that the verb is in the passive form, though without the usual -Cia passive suffix. This paper demonstrates that preverbal determiners mark a passive verb, and are in complementary distribution with the standard passive suffix. Previous analyses for preverbal determiners, including being part of continuous aspect particle or introducing a nominalized verb, are ruled out. Preverbal determiners which identify a verb as passive are not found in any other Polynesian language, making this construction unique.

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Moriori中的前决定因素与被动因素

摘要：本文考察了Moriori（查塔姆群岛）语前限定词的奇怪出现，这些限定词最好作为被动标记进行分析。在一些毛利语句子中，限定词出现在从句首时态/方面助词之后，动词之前。检查这些句子中论点的词形标记可以发现，动词是被动形式，尽管没有通常的-Cia被动后缀。本文论证了前词限定词是被动动词的标志，与标准被动后缀呈互补分布。排除了先前对动词前限定词的分析，包括作为连续体助词的一部分或引入名词化动词。在任何其他波利尼西亚语言中都找不到将动词识别为被动的前动词限定词，这使得这种结构独一无二。

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OCEANIC LINGUISTICS LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia. The thousand-odd languages within the scope of the journal are the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family. Articles in Oceanic Linguistics cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages.