18. Detransitive voice
- functions of detrz:
- antipassive
- passive
- reflexive
- reciprocal
- anticausative
- other strategies for removing participant:
- -se-mï 'gnomic'
- -në
- what is not used for voice?
- -sapë
- participle
18.1 Issues with transitivity
- ya occurs with intransitives
- some transitive verbs occur with oblique-marked P arguments:
- some intransitive verbs can look like transitives:
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‘What are we going to laugh about?’ (Conversación sobre la risa entre GrMe y ElPe : 12)
- not all transitive verbs take identifiable objects: