Comparative Concept: special P strategy (str)

special P strategy (str)

Typ strategy
Alias(se) special P strategy
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Definition

a strategy of the passive–inverse voice construction in which the P - participant is encoded by a form that is not found for either the A - participant or the P participant in the basic voice construction. Example: in Upriver Halkomelem tə́s-l-əm θúƛ'à tə swíyəqə 'She was bumped into by the man', the P participant (the woman referred to by 'she') is indexed by the suffix -əm, which is distinct from the expression of A or P participants in the basic voice construction. (Section 8.3)