The present article investigates anticausativization from a diachronic perspective, highlighting the parameters determining the morphosyntactic encoding of intransitivization in two early Western Indo-European languages, Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic. It is shown that the structural and lexical aspects of a verb’s meaning and their interplay with the inherent and relational characteristics of verbal arguments affect the synchronic distribution and the diachronic development of the anticausativation strategies in the languages investigated. These features interact, in the course of time, with changes in the encoding of voice and grammatical relations, such as the demise of the synthetic mediopassive and the recasting of the case system.

Semantic and (morpho)syntactic constraints on anticausativization: Evidence from Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic Michela Cennamo1 / Thórhallur Eythórsson2 / Jóhanna Barðdal3 / Cennamo, Michela. - In: LINGUISTICS. - ISSN 0024-3949. - 53:4(2015), pp. 677-729.

Semantic and (morpho)syntactic constraints on anticausativization: Evidence from Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic Michela Cennamo1 / Thórhallur Eythórsson2 / Jóhanna Barðdal3

CENNAMO, MICHELA
2015

Abstract

The present article investigates anticausativization from a diachronic perspective, highlighting the parameters determining the morphosyntactic encoding of intransitivization in two early Western Indo-European languages, Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic. It is shown that the structural and lexical aspects of a verb’s meaning and their interplay with the inherent and relational characteristics of verbal arguments affect the synchronic distribution and the diachronic development of the anticausativation strategies in the languages investigated. These features interact, in the course of time, with changes in the encoding of voice and grammatical relations, such as the demise of the synthetic mediopassive and the recasting of the case system.
2015
Semantic and (morpho)syntactic constraints on anticausativization: Evidence from Latin and Old Norse-Icelandic Michela Cennamo1 / Thórhallur Eythórsson2 / Jóhanna Barðdal3 / Cennamo, Michela. - In: LINGUISTICS. - ISSN 0024-3949. - 53:4(2015), pp. 677-729.
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