Chapter published in:
Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectivesEdited by Albert Álvarez González and Ia Navarro
[Typological Studies in Language 120] 2017
► pp. 194–225
A panorama of valency changing operations in Seri
The Seri language displays several valency changing operations, most of which are robustly attested and used. This paper presents a panorama of these operations. Evidence from the morphology, sensitive as it is to transitivity, helps in the consideration of possible analyses. Some of the operations, such as passive, unspecified subject, antipassive (implicit argument type) and causative, are straightforward in their respective analyses, as well as being common cross-linguistically. Other operations, including the impersonal passive of transitive verbs, the age construction, the times construction and the Experiencer subject construction, do not have counterparts in many other languages.
Published online: 30 September 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.120.08mar
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.120.08mar
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