The Basic Verb Construction in Balinese
| Main Author: | Ketut Artawa |
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| Format: | Article eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2013
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/1220071 |
Daftar Isi:
- Analyzing the basic verb construction in Balinese from a voice-typological perspective, this paper has two goals. First, by focusing on the syntactic properties of this construction, it tries to show that it has a number of peculiar properties. It has passive-like properties in which the Patient is the subject, but the verb form is unmarked and the Agent is generally not an adjunct, which is unusual in passive constructions. Second, it describes a split of the third pronominal Agent in order to find its underlying principles. In Low Balinese, the third person pronominal Agent of the basic verb construction is represented as an enclitic –a on the verb. It is a kind of pronominal suffix which can be followed by an Agent adjunct represented by a prepositional phrase, showing that this construction is like a passive construction. The basic construction will also be compared to other Balinese verbal constructions in order to find out to what extent it is a passive one.