Passives, impersonals and Voice in Sakha
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چکیده
Previous studies on Sakha have diverged whether to analyze its passives and impersonals as syntactically distinct constructions or not. In this paper, we report a novel variety of which behaves differently from those recorded in the literature with regard impersonals. We argue that variety, impersonal should be analyzed an active construction null pronoun, rather than passive construction. also discuss implications findings for theories typology Voice.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2641-3485']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3765/ptu.v7i1.5308