Patient vs non patient orientation of the action and the voice distinction in MG
Part of : Γλωσσολογία ; Vol.2-3, 1983, pages 75-90
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1. The point of view put forward by the traditional grammar as far as the MG voice system is concerned (morphological - semantic distinction between active, middle and passive verbal forms: suggested criteria) is disputed.2. A sketchy attempt is made at stating the passive vs active voice distinction in terms of the patient vs non patient orientation of the action expressed by the predicate, on the basis of its syntactic and semantic features. The above theoretical assumption is further examined as far as the following points are concerned: (i) in relation to the descriptive adequacy of the suggested opposition (+/- patient orientation), in comparison with other oppositions already suggested in the literature, (ii) in relation to the MG data, in order to see how well they could be captured by this distinguishing criterion.3. A crude sketch of the distribution of the verbs is attempted.4. Finally, some problems concerning the above classification are indicated.
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Περιέχει σημειώσεις και βιβλιογραφία, This paper was originally presented to the 15th Annual Meeting in Athens of the Societas LinguisticaEuropaea(8-11 September 1982). I would like to thank from this position my colleague Helen Antonopoulou for the very useful discussion and insightful comments, especially on the motion verbs.
