Voice Property ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/VoiceProperty
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Direct SubConcepts:
ImpersonalPassiveVoice IncorporatingAntipassiveVoice InverseVoice LocativePassiveVoice NecessitativePassiveVoice NonAbsolutiveAntipassiveVoice NonPromotionalInverseVoice NucleonicMiddleVoice ObliquePassiveVoice ReciprocalMiddleVoice ReferentialVoice ReflexiveMiddleVoice ReflexivePassiveVoice SemanticInverseVoice PassiveVoice PersonalPassiveVoice PlainMiddleVoice PragmaticInverseVoice ProgressivePassiveVoice PromotionalInverseVoice AbsolutiveAntipassiveVoice ActiveVoice AgentDeletionPassiveVoice AntiCausativeVoice AntiPassiveVoice ApplicativeVoice CausativeVoice DeponentMiddleVoice DirectVoice FocusAntipassiveVoice
Definition:
VoiceProperty is the class of properties that concern the grammatical encoding of the relationship between the verb and the nominals in a subject-predicate configuration. It selects a grammatically prominent syntactic constituent--subject--from the underlying semantic functions. In accusative language, the basic strategy is to select an agent as a subject [Shibatani 1988: 3]. It can be said that all voice systems mark the affectedness/nonaffectedness of sentential subjects [Klaiman 1988: 30]. Voice is also known as diathesis [Klaiman 1991: 323].
See Also:
Surrey Morphology Group - Voice
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