LINGUIST List 15.2166

Thu Jul 29 2004

FYI: Extended Deponency Website

Editor for this issue: Anne Clarke <annelinguistlist.org>

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1. Matthew Baerman, New Website: Extended Deponency

The Surrey Morphology Group would like to draw your attention to a new 
website devoted to a project on 'Extended Deponency'. The idea derives from 
the deponent verbs of Latin, which were passive in form but active in 
meaning. We take this as the core example of a type of morphological 
mismatch where the same inflected form can express mutually exclusive 
grammatical functions. Our project is a cross-linguistic typology of this 
phenomenon. The website address is:

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/MB/Deponencymain.htm

We welcome any input.

The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) 
under grant number RES-000-23-0375.