Anticausatives in Classical Armenian
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.