| Autor: |
Infimate, Marina Laltlinzo, Lyngdoh, Saralin A. |
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Language in India; May2019, Vol. 19 Issue 5, p152-162, 11p |
| Abstrakt: |
The paper is a preliminary analysis of passivization in Hmar, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in North-East India. Passivization as a valence decreasing operation is found in Hmar and is marked periphrastically. In this paper, we show that the promotion of the transitive object to a passive subject is a result of agent defocusing in the language. The basic and non-basic passive constructions have the same underlying function: to defocus the agent argument. However, they are seen to differ in the strategies they employ. The relation of object topicalization and reflexive constructions with the passives is also briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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