Detransitive voice
- functions of detrz:
- antipassive
- passive
- reflexive
- reciprocal
- anticausative
- other strategies for removing participant:
- -se-mï 'gnomic'
- -në ‘inf’
- what is not used for voice?
Issues with transitivity
- ya ‘erg’ occurs with intransitives
- some transitive verbs occur with oblique-marked P arguments:
You see something and then you laugh. /
ve una cosa y después usted se ríe (
convrisamaj:
1)
- some intransitive verbs can look like transitives:
What are we going to laugh about? /
¿de qué nos vamos a reir? (
convrisamaj:
12)
- not all transitive verbs take identifiable objects: