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11 - The Complexity of Greek Verbal Morphology
from Part II - Structure of Complex Words
- By Artemis Alexiadou
Edited by Lívia Körtvélyessy, Pavol Štekauer
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Complex Words

Published online:

18 September 2020

Print publication:

08 October 2020, pp 192-216
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This paper examines the distribution of non-active Voice morphology on intransitive variants of prefixed verbs in Greek. It is shown that such verbs bear internal prefixes and are causative and transitive. Their intransitive variants bear non-active morphology obligatorily undergoing a process of detransitivization. It is further shown that this holds also for reflexive marking in Romance (Catalan and French). This is due to a reanalysis of the particle system of the languages under discussion, according to which internal prefixes have been reanalyzed and cannot be morphophonologically separated from the verbal stem. This suggests that all three languages changed from a more lexeme-like type of prefix system (Bauer 2003) to a system where prefixes are void of spatial semantic content and seem to function as transitivity markers.