TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hamlaoui, Fatima
T1  - A note on bare-passives in (selected) Bantu and Western Nilotic Languages
T2  - Proceedings of the Workshop BantuSynPhonIS : Preverbal Domain(s), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin;  ZASPil  Vol. 57, S. 160-162
N2  - In the present paper, we concentrate on (selected) Bantu and Nilotic bare-passive strategies and lay out the basis for a typology of transitive passive constructions in these languages. We argue that bare-passives constitute an optimal strategy to change prominence relations between arguments, in languages that strongly hold to the default mapping between the highest thematic role available and the grammatical subject (i.e. Spec,TP). The Nilotic and Bantu languages discussed here differ in their way of satisfying this default mapping. In particular, impersonal bare-passives satisfy it by resorting to an agentive place-holder (an indefinite subject marker) and realizing the logical agent as a lower thematic/semantic role (e.g. instrument or locative). Left-dislocation and so called 'subjectobject' reversal bare-passives realize the default matching between agent and subject in a more straightforward way, but locate the patient in a higher argument position within the inflectional domain (Spec,TopP). As argued in Hamlaoui and Makasso (2013) and Hamlaoui (2013), and in line with Noonan (1977), the present languages display a clauseinternal split between subjecthood (being the grammatical subject in Spec,TP) and topicality (being the subject of the predication, in an inflectional-domain internal Spec,TopP).
KW  - Nilotische Sprachen
KW  - Bantusprachen
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Passiv
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36422
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-364220
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 57
SP  - 160
EP  - 182
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -