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Workshop: Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian

Symmetrical Voice Systems and Precategoriality

in Philippine Languages

William A. Foley

University of Sydney

1	The Philippine voice system

2	What the Philippine voice system is not

	2.1	Arguments against the active-passive analysis
	2.2	Arguments against the ergative-antipassive analysis
	2.3	Evidence against the unergative-unaccusative analysis

3	The symmetrical voice type

4	A comparative typological excursion: Northwest Coast languages

	4.1	The lack of a noun/verb distinction in NW Coast languages
	4.2	Symmetrical voice in the NW Coast: Kwakwala
	4.3	Summary of symmetrical voice system properties

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Created: 4 June 1998
Last modified: 12 June 1998

Authorised by: P. Austin, Professor and HOD, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics