Tongan -‘i: Increasing Transitivity in Valency and Aspect
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چکیده
The Tongan suffix -‘i has been variously analyzed as a transitivizer, a passive suffix, a perfective suffix, and a modifier of verbal semantics. It has a variety of effects on the valency and aspect of the verb to which it is affixed. The One Form/One Meaning Principle (Johns 1992) suggests that these various effects should be linked together. I show that the apparently divergent functions of -‘i can be unified under a single definition of the suffix as a transitivizer, and I present a proposal for how this analysis can be formalized in a representation of syntactic structure.
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