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Título del libro: The Oxford Handbook Of Cognitive Linguistics
Título del capítulo: Grammatical Voice in Cognitive Grammar

Autores UNAM:
RICARDO LEON MALDONADO SOTO;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2012
Palabras clave:

Active voice; Ann Cooreman; Cognitive grammar; Diathesis; Inverse voice; Middle voice; Passive voice; Philippine languages; Verbs; Voice patterns


Resumen:

Voice or diathesis, as first termed by Dionysius, is the grammatical category by which the arguments of the verb receive different prominence status in the sentence through a variety of semantic-syntactic and even pragmatic coding patterns. In verbs involving at least two arguments, the arrangement is always asymmetrical, with one argument being more prominent than the other. For all languages, there seems to be a canonical unmarked voice pattern, most commonly the active, where the agent is more prominent than the patient. Active voice contrasts with a variety of marked voice patterns: passive, anti-passive, inverse, and middle. This article provides a cognitive grammar approach that motivates the emergence of a variety of voice marking systems as corresponding to alternative conceptualization strategies. It considers Ann Cooreman's four-way distinction of voice marking systems: active direct voice, inverse voice, passive voice, and anti-passive voice. Finally, it looks at Philippine languages, which constitute a knotty problem for voice systems. © 2007 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved.


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