Chapter published in:
Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolatingEdited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
[Typological Studies in Language 129] 2020
► pp. 213–252
Voice and bare verbs in Colloquial Minangkabau
Sophie Crouch | The University of Western Australia
Minangkabau is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in West
Sumatra. Previous studies of voice and morphosyntax, which have largely relied on
elicitation-based methodology, suggest that Minangkabau can be characterised as an
Indonesian-type language since its active/passive voice system resembles that of
Malay/Indonesian. This study, which makes use of a corpus of naturalistic Minangkabau
data, finds that the use of bare verbs (i.e. verbs that are unmarked for voice) is
pervasive in informal and conversational contexts. Morphological underspecification for
voice in the naturalistic data suggests that Colloquial Minangkabau is a distinct
variety. The apparent optional nature of voice marking in Colloquial Minangkabau
indicates that its function is primarily semantic and conceptual, and that Colloquial
Minangkabau is better characterised as having a Sundic-type voice system.
Keywords: Minangkabau, voice, bare verbs, Sundic-type voice system, Indonesian-type voice system
Published online: 21 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.129.04cro
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.129.04cro
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