CAUSATIVE AND PASSIVE IN SAKHA: FOCUSING ON DOUBLE-ACCUSATIVE CAUSATIVE AND IMPERSONAL PASSIVE
This paper examines Sakha causative and passive, focusing on double-accusative causative and impersonal passive. With regard to Sakha causatives, it is pointed out that the case-marking of causee is related to the type of causation meant. Double-accusative causatives are possible in Sakha. Additionally, Sakha allows impersonal passives, which are derived from both transitive and intransitive clauses. The unexpressed agent in impersonal passives must be human. Double-accusative causative is impossible in most Turkic languages other than Sakha, but possible in almost all Tungusic languages. Therefore, it is highly probable that Sakha doubleaccusative causative has developed through contact with Tungusic languages. In contrast to double-accusative causatives, impersonal passives are not possible in Tungusic languages but found in other Turkic languages. Thus, it is unlikely that Sakha impersonal passives have developed through language contact.
Keywords: Sakha, valence, double-accusative causative, impersonal passive, language contact
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Issue: 2, 2013
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: LINGUISTICS
Pages: 16 — 28
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