10 • Antipassive

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dc.contributor.author	Dal Corso Elia
dc.title	10 • Antipassive
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dc.description.abstract	Antipassivisation is a process common in, but not exclusive to, ergative languages and it usually concerns transitive and ditransitive verbs. In a prototypical antipassive construction an original object argument of the verb is demoted to be an oblique. At discourse level, antipassivisation serves to de-focus an element that has low referentiality in the context. Antipassivisation is therefore similar to passivisation, the difference between the two processes being that the former downplays the centrality of an object while the latter downplays the centrality of the subject.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Linguistics and Language Education
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-04-04
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-585-8/010
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-604-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-585-8
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Antipassivisation is a process common in, but not exclusive to, ergative languages and it usually concerns transitive and ditransitive verbs. In a prototypical antipassive construction an original object argument of the verb is demoted to be an oblique. At discourse level, antipassivisation serves to de-focus an element that has low referentiality in the context. Antipassivisation is therefore similar to passivisation, the difference between the two processes being that the former downplays the centrality of an object while the latter downplays the centrality of the subject.

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