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Topic:Armenian verb
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Anticausatives in Classical Armenian

Kocharov, Petr, 2023
Journal of Historical Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 255–294 (John Benjamins); DOI 10.1075/jhl.22001.koc

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.

Classical Armeniananticausativesvalency and voicediachronic typologyProto-Indo-European
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