Patient-voice clauses within the symmetric voice system
of Balinese disallow any extraction from the
external-argument position, while definite external
arguments are blocked from occurring altogether. The
former fact is traditionally taken as evidence for syntactic
ergativity in Austronesian. The latter fact has
recently been argued to provide evidence for postsyntactic
case licensing via adjacency with the verb. In
this article, we offer a simple alternative explanation
for the in-situ properties of patient-voice agents in
Balinese—one that does not make reference to case.We
argue that patient-voice heads come with a feature that
triggers removal of the external argument’s DP shell,
resulting in the loss of a determiner and a category-D
feature that would otherwise enable extraction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:88871 |
| Date | 05 January 2024 |
| Creators | Driemel, Imke, Tebay, Sören E. |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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