Kemmer (1993) argues that middle voice markers almost always arise diachronically through the semantic extension of a reflexive marker to other semantic uses related to reflexive. In this paper I will argue for an alternative diachronic path that has led to the development of the middle marker in Yurakaré (unclassified, Bolivia): through ideophone-verb constructions. Taking this perspective helps explain a number of synchronic peculiarities of the middle marker in Yurakaré, and it introduces a previously unnoticed channel for middle voice markers to arise.
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Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide
2017. Basque ideophones from a typological perspective. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 62:2 ► pp. 196 ff.
Nuckolls, Janis B., Elizabeth Nielsen, Joseph A. Stanley & Roseanna Hopper
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van Gijn, Rik
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2013. Aesthetic elements in Temiar grammar. In The Aesthetics of Grammar, ► pp. 36 ff.
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