TY  - JOUR
A1  - Luraghi, Silvia
A1  - Inglese, Guglielmo
A1  - Kölligan, Daniel
T1  - The passive voice in ancient Indo-European languages: inflection, derivation, periphrastic verb forms
T2  - Folia Linguistica
N2  - The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some language branches, the middle voice extended to the passive function to varying extents. In addition, dedicated derivational formations arose in a number of languages, such as the Greek -ē-/-thē- aorist and the Indo-Aryan -ya-presents. Periphrastic formations involving a verbal adjective or a participle are also widely attested, and played an important role in the building of the passive paradigm in e.g. Romance and Germanic languages. As the periphrastic passive is also attested in Hittite alongside passive use of the middle, both strategies seem to be equally ancient. Some minor strategies include lexical passives and the extensive lability of verbs. A survey of possible strategies provides evidence for the rise of a disparate number of morphemes and constructions, and for their ongoing incorporation into the inflectional paradigms (paradigmaticization) of given languages, thus adding to our knowledge about cross-linguistic sources of passive morphology and grammaticalization processes involved.
KW  - ancient Indo-European languages
KW  - derivation
KW  - inflection
KW  - middle voice
KW  - passive
KW  - periphrastic forms
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24703
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-247034
SN  - 0165-4004
SN  - 1614-7308
VL  - 55
IS  - s42-s2
SP  - 339
EP  - 391
ER  -