<Articles>Causal-noncausal verb pairs in Ilocano

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  • <研究論文>イロカノ語の使役・非使役動詞ペア
  • Causal-noncausal verb pairs in Ilocano

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Ilocano is an Austronesian language of the Philippines. This paper examines typological characteristics in the coding of causal-noncausal verb alternations in Ilocano. Specifically, this study provides Ilocano data to Haspelmath's (1993) list of 31 causal-noncausal verb meaning pairs. The results reveal that Ilocano uses both directed and non-directed coding with equal frequency. It is also shown that Ilocano has productive morphological devices to form causal and noncausal verbs, and the same root is shared by both causal and noncausal members of a pair. In addition to these descriptive facts, I argue that the Ilocano data does not fully fit into the crosslinguistic tendency claimed by Haspelmath (2016) and different semantic characteristics of roots should be considered in order to account for the distribution of coding types.

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  • 京都大学言語学研究

    京都大学言語学研究 41 19-42, 2022-12-31

    Departmental of Linguistics, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

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