Chapter 14. Diachronic hybrids: The Lunda Passive

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. VOLUME I
5. Part I: Perspective
6. Chapter 1. Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: An archaeologist’s field trip 1
7. Chapter 2. From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy 27
8. Chapter 3. Where does crazy syntax come from? 49
9. Chapter 4. The SOV mystery and language evolution 75
10. Part II: Out of Africa
11. Chapter 5. On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni 99
12. Chapter 6. On the verbal origin of the Bantu verb suffixes 117
13. Chapter 7. Serial verbs and syntactic change: Niger-Congo 131
14. Chapter 8. Topic, pronoun and grammatical agreement 163
15. Chapter 9. The drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The pragmatics of tense-aspect 197
16. Chapter 10. The evolution of subordinate clauses in Biblical Hebrew 245
17. Chapter 11. The diachrony of the so-called ‘ethical dative’ 281
18. Chapter 12. The evolution of indefinite markers 307
19. Part III: Voices
20. Chapter 13. The rise of the English GET-passive 327
21. Chapter 14. Diachronic hybrids: The Lunda Passive 355
22. Chapter 15. The evolution of de-transitive voice in Tolowa Athabaskan 375
23. Chapter 16. Tale of two passives: Internal reconstruction in Ute 409
24. Chapter 17. Toward a diachronic typology of passive voice 427
25. VOLUME II
26. Part IV: High up the mountain
27. Chapter 18. The evolution of Ute case-marking 445
28. Chapter 19. The evolution of Ute post-positions 465
29. Chapter 20. The diachrony of pronominal agreement in Ute 477
30. Chapter 21. The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute 507
31. Chapter 22. The usual suspects: The grammaticalization of ‘do’, ‘be’, ‘have’ and ‘go’ in Ute 525
32. Part V: Complexity
33. Chapter 23. Serial verbs and the mental reality of ‘event’ 555
34. Chapter 24. The puzzle of Ngabere auxiliaries: Comparative cum internal reconstruction in Chibchan and Misumalpan 577
35. Chapter 25. The genesis of complex verb phrases: Multiple routes to clause-union 599
36. Chapter 26. The genesis of complex noun phrases 637
37. Chapter 27. Nominalization, de-subordination and re-finitization 661
38. Part VI: Prospective
39. Chapter 28. Diachrony, ontogeny, and evolution 695
40. Chapter 29. Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory 731
41. Chapter 30. The intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics 771
42. Chapter 31. Beyond Structuralism: Exorcising Saussure’s ghost 787
43. Chapter 32. Mi vida loca en la linguística : A conversation with Zarina Estrada 801
44. Bibliography B1
45. Language Index I1
46. Topic Index I3