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Bulletin de la société de linguistique de Paris, XCVII - 2002, fasc. 1 (2002) 283-314

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Parcours de type passif et de type antipassif en basque souletin

Jean-Baptiste Coyos 1

(2002-02-10)

Many researchers who have studied the Basque language more or less doubt the existence of voices or diversified diathetic courses in the language. In this article examples of passive voice and antipassive voice of the same verb are given. Observation of the data makes it possible to release the respective semantic and enonciative contributions, instead of regarding the diathetic form of the languages with long grammatical traditions as prototypical diathetic courses. On the plan of the language dynamics, there is on the one hand a construction rarely found in speech, that of the antipassive form, but which is natural in the linguistic consciousness of the speakers. On the other hand, there is also the passive form, which is more common in speech but is perceived as less natural. The possibility of choosing between passive and antipassive voices to describe the same event brings not to consider this form of Basque, from this point of view, like not neither of an "accusative syntax", nor of an "ergative syntax". In terms of "pivot" (Dixon), the Souletin dialect is little marked.

1:	Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER)
	CNRS : UMR5478 – Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III – Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

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Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics/Morphosyntax Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics/Dialectology

Mots-Clés : Basque souletin – diathetic courses – linguistic dynamics – passive – antipassive – pivotless language

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Submitted on: Friday, 16 December 2005 14:41:49

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