Second, I focus on the detransitivising morpheme -ik which serves as one possible marking for intransitive members of these paradigms.

[by smb. Sauter à la navigation Sauter à la recherche Cette catégorie réunit les mots et locutions en beembe … 2002. Soulignez ou référencez vos versets préférés, créez des versets illustrés que vous pouvez partager, et attachez des notes publiques ou privées à des passages bibliques.Les Plan de lecture vous aident à vous plonger dans la Parole de Dieu tous les jours, un petit peu à la fois.Des dizaines de millions de personnes utilisent l'application Bible App pour appliquer la Parole de Dieu dans leur quotidien. Although neither of them covers the majority of the subcategories subsumed under the canonical middle voice and semantic space of the middle voice into different smaller, but still multifunctional, semantic units.

The antipassive in Bantu.

The latter thus also cannot be introduced in an oblique phrase. The antipassive in Bantu. 1988. (eds.). The main goal of our paper is to give a first, general description of middle voice in Bantu. Grestenberger 2016: 138 et passim for a discussion of the Proto-Indo-European non-caIn the typological literature, Bantu language data have either been neglected in discussions on the middle voice, or, still more regrettablyKemmer (1993: 26) categorizes the Bantu languages Changana and Pangwa as languages with a one-form middle system. The hypothesis put forward suggests that the passive function of the neuter stems from incremental steps of expansion, which eventually enabled it to co-occur with prototypical agents.Cuwabo has two different derivational suffixes to form passive verb stems, i.e. Volume 57 (2015) reports that in Fwe (Zambia; Naof the verb most often do not evoke ambiguity.

This semantic development is attested, foremost, for passives of several verbs of perception and knowledge (knowledge transfer) such as Ved.

Save for later . As will be shown, this language group has a set of verbal derivational morphemes that challenges some of the concepts related to the middle domain.

Such is the case in example (4) above, where a reading of the plates having washed themselves seems improbable, if not impossible in a real-world, non-magical interpretation. (http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/docserver/journals/22125892/4/1/22125892_004_01_s004_text.pdf?expires=1484054517&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=0B9CA70D0428059D1FB8A11FHumaines 57).


First of all, as of yet no description has been found of a language having more than one middle marker, yet many Bantu languages have up to four or five derivational morphemes that cover several parts of the semantic domain of the middle.



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Rather, as Schadeberg (2003: 75) writes, “the common element of meaning is ‘assuming a position’, or – when used in a perfective aspect form – ‘to be in a position’”. and richer domains. In Nurse, Derek & Philippson, Gérard (eds.





Kemmer 1993)The cross-Bantu semantic range of positional *-am-plotted on the semantic map of the middle domain (cf.

Librairie Falk, Bruxelles. Finally, I provide a discussion of reflexives and the apparent lack of a reflexive reading with -ik by arguing that this reading is blocked by either lexical reflexives or the reflexive prefix i-.Cuwabo is a Bantu language, spoken by more than 800,000 people (INE 2007) in the north-eastern part of Mozambique. Dictionnaire kikongo-français, avec une étude phonétique décrivant les dialectes les plus importants de la langue dite kikongo.

), Bostoen, Koen & Dom, Sebastian & Segerer, Guillaume. )reconstructions 3 / Reconstructions lexicales bantoues 3Bearth, Thomas.

(10b) would be uttered by someone who overheard a loud party in Having outlined the three types of constructions in which the neuter is used, it is spans only patient-oriented constructions, and a number of its functions, such as potential passive, stative, stimulus and evidentiality, are generally not considered as subcategories of the middle voice.