Anticausativization in Latin and early Romance: the semantics of predicates and the syntax of voice

This paper investigates the role played by the interplay of the aspectual template of verbs, the verb’s inherent meaning (the 'root'), and the nature of the –P subject (e.g., animacy and control) in determining the distribution of the different strategies available in the diachrony of Latin and in early Italo-Romance to mark anticausativization (the (medio-passive) -r form, the reflexive pattern and the active intransitive in Latin, the active intransitive and the reflexive in old Italian).