Unitariness and Partial Identification in the Bella Coola Middle Voice

The Bella Coola suffix -m has been analyzed in the literature as two or even three separate morphemes, based on the variable effects it has on the transitivity of its base. In this paper, I argue for -m as a single morpheme with a unified meaning-specifically, as a marker of a special case of Kemmer...

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Main Author: Beck, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1997-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/333