Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Monograph | Materials and Methods of Analysis for the Study of the Ainu Language
Chapter | 10 • Antipassive
10 • Antipassive
Abstract
Antipassivisation is a process common in, but not exclusive to, ergative
languages and it usually concerns transitive and ditransitive
verbs. In a prototypical antipassive construction an original object
argument of the verb is demoted to be an oblique.
At discourse level, antipassivisation serves to de-focus an element
that has low referentiality in the context. Antipassivisation is therefore
similar to passivisation, the difference between the two processes
being that the former downplays the centrality of an object while
the latter downplays the centrality of the subject.
Published April 4, 2022 | Language: en
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