Dedio, Stefan, and Paul Widmer, “S, A, and P argument demotion with preverbal imm-(a-N) in Old and Middle Irish”, Études Celtiques 43 (2017): 187–206.
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[EN] The intricate preverbal complex of medieval Irish hosts a morpheme imm-(a- N ) with very peculiar constructional and semantic properties. In this article, we venture to give a description of imm-(a- N ) by taking into account the various changes it induces on argument representation, and explore how it modifies the semantics of the verb stem it combines with. The chronology of the data at our disposal suggests that it first denoted reciprocal states of affairs and quickly developed into a device expressing collective simultaneous action events (csa, i. e., multiple participants perform the same action in the same temporal and locational setting, but not on each other) and from the point of view of semantics are treated as active verbs. As far as argument representation is concerned, it develops into a construction which combines both features of the passive (subject demotion) and the antipassive (object demotion) diathesis.
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