Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations: afto-prefixation in Greek
Middle Voice and reflexive interpretations: afto-prefixation in Greek
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中声态和反身解释:希腊语中的 afto 前缀
DOI:
10.1007/s11049-014-9279-z
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
F. Schäfer
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文献类型:
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作者:
Spathas;A. Alexiadou ;F. Schäfer
This paper investigates in detail the properties of a particular morphological reflexivization strategy in Greek, namedafto-prefixation. The basic building blocks ofafto-prefixation are the prefixafto-, shown to be an anti-assistive intensifier, and Middle Voice, a non-active syntactic Voice that gives rise to an existential interpretation of the implicit external argument, like the canonical Passive, but exhibits no Disjoint Reference Effects, unlike the Passive. The reflexive interpretation ofafto-prefixation is the result of semantically composing these two elements. We argue that neither the prefix nor non-active morphology is a reflexivizer, i.e. neither imposes identity between two arguments of the predicate. The results of our analysis are rather surprising to the extent that they show that there exist reflexivization strategies that involve no reflexivization at all. We show that Voice and the class of intensifiers are integral elements of certain reflexivization strategies and demonstrate how and why they interact compositionally in deriving reflexive interpretations. This interaction points towards an account of both anaphoric and morphological reflexivization strategies that depends crucially on properties of predicates (rather than anaphors), and is crucially based on a dissociation of intensification from reflexivization.
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