Voice and valency derivations in Old Indo-Aryan in a diachronic typological perspective: the degrammaticalization of the middle and other trends in the Vedic verbal system

Kulikov, Leonid
(2012) Usare il presente per spiegare il passato. Teorie linguistiche contemporanee e lingue storiche. Atti del XXXIII Convegno della S — ISBN: [88-89837-85-3], p. 161-191, published

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The present paper concentrates on the diachronic aspects of the typology of transitivity oppositions and valency-changing categories, focusing on evidence available from one branch of Indo-European, Indo-Aryan. It also aims to draw attention to the regrettable imbalance of the synchronic and diachronic typological studies. It offers an overview of several features of the Indo-Aryan, and, particularly, of the Old Indo-Aryan system of voices and valency-changing categories, which are relevant in a diachronic typological perspective. The main tendencies which determine the evolution of the Vedic (OIA) system of transitivity oppositions include: (i) the decline of the middle diathesis, which, as I will argue, amounts to its degrammaticalization; (ii) the rapid growth of new valency-changing categories, passives and causatives; and (iii) the decline of the labile patterning.
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Kulikov, L. (2012). Voice and valency derivations in Old Indo-Aryan in a diachronic typological perspective: the degrammaticalization of the middle and other trends in the Vedic verbal system. In Lucio Melazzo (ed.) (ed.), Usare il presente per spiegare il passato. Teorie linguistiche contemporanee e lingue storiche. Atti del XXXIII Convegno della S (p. p. 161-191). Il Calamo. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/222715