Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice
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Resumo: | In Capeverdean, a Portuguese-based Creole language, many reflexive contexts do not show any overt reflexive expression. This is the case of transitive verbs like bisti ‘dress’ in simple clauses: Ana bisti ‘Ana has dressed herself’. This is a perplexing fact, given that there is an anaphor of the SELF-type available in the language: (si) kabesa — literally ‘his/her head’ —, meaning ‘himself/ herself’, which participates in reflexive clauses with other verbs. The current paper explores this puzzle, ending with a proposal supported empirically and also by recent studies for other languages. This novel analysis goes as follows: all Capeverdean finite sentences, except unaccusatives, have a Voice head, responsible for assigning external theta-roles. This also includes middles, passives and this type of reflexives. It is this Voice head that, in spite of being silent, attracts the internal argument to a preverbal position and provides the interpretation for an implicit external argument, which is syntactically active. |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent VoiceCapeverdeanReflexivesPassive constructionsVoice projectionImplicit argumentsIn Capeverdean, a Portuguese-based Creole language, many reflexive contexts do not show any overt reflexive expression. This is the case of transitive verbs like bisti ‘dress’ in simple clauses: Ana bisti ‘Ana has dressed herself’. This is a perplexing fact, given that there is an anaphor of the SELF-type available in the language: (si) kabesa — literally ‘his/her head’ —, meaning ‘himself/ herself’, which participates in reflexive clauses with other verbs. The current paper explores this puzzle, ending with a proposal supported empirically and also by recent studies for other languages. This novel analysis goes as follows: all Capeverdean finite sentences, except unaccusatives, have a Voice head, responsible for assigning external theta-roles. This also includes middles, passives and this type of reflexives. It is this Voice head that, in spite of being silent, attracts the internal argument to a preverbal position and provides the interpretation for an implicit external argument, which is syntactically active.Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaPratas, Fernanda2018-05-25T16:02:12Z20142014-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/33666engPratas, Fernanda. 2014. Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice. Estudos de Linguística Galega 6: 233-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/elg.6.17761889-2566http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/elg.6.1776info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:27:54Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/33666Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:48:15.007526Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice Pratas, Fernanda Capeverdean Reflexives Passive constructions Voice projection Implicit arguments |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice |
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Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice |
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Pratas, Fernanda |
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Pratas, Fernanda |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Pratas, Fernanda |
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Capeverdean Reflexives Passive constructions Voice projection Implicit arguments |
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Capeverdean Reflexives Passive constructions Voice projection Implicit arguments |
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In Capeverdean, a Portuguese-based Creole language, many reflexive contexts do not show any overt reflexive expression. This is the case of transitive verbs like bisti ‘dress’ in simple clauses: Ana bisti ‘Ana has dressed herself’. This is a perplexing fact, given that there is an anaphor of the SELF-type available in the language: (si) kabesa — literally ‘his/her head’ —, meaning ‘himself/ herself’, which participates in reflexive clauses with other verbs. The current paper explores this puzzle, ending with a proposal supported empirically and also by recent studies for other languages. This novel analysis goes as follows: all Capeverdean finite sentences, except unaccusatives, have a Voice head, responsible for assigning external theta-roles. This also includes middles, passives and this type of reflexives. It is this Voice head that, in spite of being silent, attracts the internal argument to a preverbal position and provides the interpretation for an implicit external argument, which is syntactically active. |
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Pratas, Fernanda. 2014. Capeverdean reflexives: the importance of a silent Voice. Estudos de Linguística Galega 6: 233-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/elg.6.1776 1889-2566 http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/elg.6.1776 |
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