Anticausatives in Classical Armenian
Kocharov, Petr · 2023
Kocharov describes how Classical Armenian codes anticausatives and the causative-anticausative alternation, using typological questionnaires and a verb dataset drawn from the Armenian Bible translation. He then reads the synchronic evidence diachronically, looking forward to modern Armenian varieties and back to Proto-Indo-European reconstruction. He argues that separating derivational from inflectional tiers better explains the morphological links between alternation patterns, and that Grabar's overall valency orientation is dominated by a nondirected equipollent strategy, with the labile strategy a major innovation confined to the imperfective part of the verbal paradigm.
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Kocharov, Petr 2023. Anticausatives in Classical Armenian. Journal of Historical Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 255–294 (John Benjamins); DOI 10.1075/jhl.22001.koc. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.22001.koc
What this offers a reader
Technical, but this is how the Armenian verb system actually works and where it came from.
Ties Grabar morphology to both modern Armenian and Indo-European prehistory.
The deep structure of our verb, traced back three thousand years.
How the Armenian verb system evolved from Indo-European.
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