Reflexivity, focus and the Georgian vowel -i-
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Reflexivity, Voice, Focus, Minimalism.Abstract
The present paper analyses the reflexivization strategies in Georgian under Hornstein’s (1999, 2001) theta-role checking bymovement proposal as an attempt to explain the syncretism of the morpheme -i-, which occurs in reflexives, anticausatives and passives. This analysis goes against the idea that this morpheme is a valence or voice operator (cf. Nash, 2002), showing that it is rather the realization of an incorporated copy of the internal argument.
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