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Volitivity and Subject Case Marking in Sinhala

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dc.contributor.author Chou, C.T.
dc.contributor.author Hettiarachchi, S.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T06:54:35Z
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T06:54:35Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.citation Chou, C.T., Hettiarachchi, S. (2015). "Volitivity and Subject Case Marking in Sinhala", Proceedings o f the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, pp. 99-108 en_US, si_LK
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6097
dc.description.abstract Attached en_US, si_LK
dc.description.abstract Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sri Lanka, has a well-known semantic classification of verbs. All Sinhala verb roots occur in one or two stem classes, commonly known as volitives and involitives (see Gair 1990; Gair & Paolillo 1997; Inman 1993; Beavers & Zubair 2010, 2013). The (in)volitivity of a verb denotes the extent to which the external argument is involved in the action denoted by the verb. For example, in (la), the verb natdmwa 'dance’, in the volitive form, is both volitional and intentional on the part of the subject Lal. By contrast, in (lb), with the involitive verb, the act o f dancing is either non-volitional or unplanned as far as Lal is concerned.1'2
dc.language.iso en_US en_US, si_LK
dc.publisher Proceedings o f the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics en_US, si_LK
dc.title Volitivity and Subject Case Marking in Sinhala en_US, si_LK
dc.type Article en_US, si_LK


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