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In:Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization
Edited by Guglielmo Inglese, Giulia Mazzola and Eugenio Goria
[Typological Studies in Language 138] 2026
► pp. 488–514

Chapter 15
Anticausatives in Takituduh Bunun

 | Lund University
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Abstract
This chapter presents a first tentative analysis of transitivity alternations for causal-noncausal verb pairs in Takituduh Bunun (bnn, Austronesian: Taiwan). Takituduh Bunun uses both anticausative and causative grammatical structures for such transitivity alternations. These grammatical structures interact in complex ways with the Austronesian Voice System, although I argue that causativization and anticausativization are used independently to form complex stems upon which the Voice System layered. The distribution of the synthetic and analytic causatives and the anticausative in Takituduh Bunun adhere to the predictions made by the Spontaneity Scale.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Anticausative patterns
  • 3.Causative patterns
  • 4.Other patterns
  • 5.Distribution in the lexicon
  • 6.Summary and concluding remarks
  • Author queries
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
  • Appendix
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