Myler, Neil et Mali, Zoliswa
(2024).
« Accounting for the Mirror Principle and its Exceptions in
Causative Applicative
Interactions: The case of isiXhosa » (Colloque 50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM : Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal, 22 au 24 avril 2021), sous la dir. de Pinsonneault, Reine et Léveillé, Yoann.
Montréal, pp. 156-175.
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Résumé
Causative-Applicative interactions in the Southern Bantu language isiXhosa exhibit paradoxical behavior with regard to the Mirror Principle (Baker 1985), in some cases seeming to strongly support it, but in others appearing to violate it. We motivate a three-way taxonomy of Applicatives in isiXhosa: Low Applicatives, High Applicatives, and Super High Applicatives. The Causative must follow Low Appl, must precede Super High Appl, and may either precede or follow High Appl. We propose an adaptation of the raising analysis of High Applicatives (Georgala 2012; Paul & Whitman 2010, Nie 2019), according to which High Applicatives are not (in all cases) theta-positions, but instead licensors of oblique arguments whose thematic roles come from elsewhere. We show that this approach makes strong predictions about the sorts of apparent Mirror Principle violation involving Causatives and Applicatives that can occur, including: (i) only High Appl can participate in such violations, not Low Appl; (ii) only Caus-Appl can give rise to apparent Mirror Principle violations; Appl-Caus orders never can. We argue that these predictions are correct.
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