Diátesis y tipología lingüística: el caso de los diatetizadores románicos

• Authors: Andreu Bauçà i Sastre

Title variants

EN

Diathesis and linguistic typology: the case of the romance ‘diathesizers

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

The diathesizer (DIAT) is a morpheme whose main function is the insertion of the verbal category of the diathesis. It represents a valid, and up to now almost unexplored, criterion for the typological classification of languages. The present article is a particular instance of application to the Romance case: On the basis of the language "convergence" among the different varieties, it proposes an alternative typology; apart from improving our knowledge about the concept of diathesis, it sets the path for more general conclusions regarding the nature of languages, their evolution and change.

Keywords

EN

diathesis; diathesizer; semantic; syntactic; marked; unmarked; active; non-active; affected subject; passive; middle; ergative; impersonal; syncretism; typological classification; Romania continua; convergence; language change; Sprachbund

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Linguistica Pragensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-21
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Andreu Bauçà i Sastre

• Linguistica Pragensia, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic