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GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION

   1. Subject

       Think of a staff meeting, for example. There are different kinds of people, different ages,
sexes, qualifications, etc and partly because of these differences; each person plays a different
role in the meeting. Likewise words in a sentence: there are different kinds of words – nouns,
verbs, adjectives and so on, and they each play a different role in the sentence. Each role gives
contributions to the sentence's meaning. For example, Pat likes beans, the subject Pat contributes
the `like-er' (subject) and the object beans contributes the `like-ee' (object). If we do not know
about the rule, surely we do not know about the meaning of the sentence.
       In learning grammatical function, there will have a set of terms of grammatical
description. The terms are subject, object, oblique object, indirect object, complement and
adjunct. In terms of subject, a distinction is frequently drawn between grammatical subject,
logical subject, and thematic or psychological subject.
       Grammatical subject is the grammatical forms that can function as the subject. For
example, in English grammar, the grammatical subjects are noun phrases, prepositional phrases,
verb phrases, and noun clauses. Sometimes, the subject of a sentence can be a nominalzed
sentence or sentence like constituent, as in:
  - That Edinburgh’s New Town is magnificent is undeniable
  - For you to run off with Mary would be madness.
When no such constituent is available to act as subject a ‘dummy’ subject is supplied; this is the
case with ‘weather’ expressions. E.g. It is raining. Where a nominalized sentence is extraposed,
it will become: - That Edinburgh’s New Town is magnificent is undeniable
   -               It is undeniable that Edinburgh’s New Town
   Another item that operates like a dummy subject is there. Existential asserts the existence of
something. Eg. There are glasses in the drinks cupboard. Deictic point to something. Eg. There
is the glass. There are differences between deictic and existential. In deictic, pronounced with
non-reduced form.E.g. there is /ðɛəriz/, there are /ðɛəra/; There need not be a subject (For
instance, The glass is there); There can be questioned (Where is the glass?); Definite NP means
there typically restricted to sentences with definite NP ( the) .
   In existential, pronounced with reduced form. Eg. there is /ðəz/, there are /ðəra/; There must


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Derived from
be a subject (For example: There is a glass); There can’t be questioned (where are the glasses in
the drinks cupboard?); Indefinite NP means there typically restricted to sentences with indefinite
NP ( a and an) E.g. A glass is on the table.
   Subject in the grammar of English can be derived from transformational approach to
description. In this approach, we distinguish an underlying from a surface level of description.
Suppose the sentence: Everyone believes that Charlie is handsome

                          Everyone believes (Charlie is handsome) → Underlying structure
                                                      Derived from

                          Everyone believes Charlie to be handsome → Alternative realization

       Logical subject is usually related to sentences involving an (agent) participant. Agent is
the "doer" who or what that causes the action.
For instance: William invaded England in 1066.
              G       L
             England was invaded by William in 1066.
                  G                         L
       There are many typical roles for the subject in logical subject. First, agentive subject
performs the action as in John beat the dog. Second, instrumental subject is used to carry out the
action as in The axe smashed the door. Third, dative subject as in Harry knows that his wife is
unfaithful. Fourth, goal subject where the action is directed towards/from as in Harry received a
gold medallion from the Royal Society. Fifth, source subject is where the action originated as in
The Royal Society presented a gold medallion to Harry. Sixth, locative place subject where the
action occurs as in Edinburgh is cold, wet and windy. Seventh, patient subject undergoes the
action and changes its state as in The butter is melting. Last, neutral subject mindlessly performs
the action as in Mary is very tired.

       Thematic subject is characterized by textual considerations – this is what the sentence is
about. For example;
1. John (G,L,T) took the largest kitten
    2. The largest kitten (G,T) was taken by John (L)
    3. The largest kitten (T), we (G,L) gave away.


    2. Object

In active declarative sentence with unmarked word order, these four grammatical features
characterize the object:

    1. Directly follows the verb

    2. Not in construction with a preposition

    3. Can become the subject of the corresponding passive sentence

    4. An obligatory constituent with transitive verbs

One kind of objects is object of result and it is also called an ‘effected’ or ‘factitive’ object.

    e.g.

    •      Maggie move the table

    •      The workmen are cleaning the horse cages

It can become the subject of a passive sentence, and there are no paraphrases involving
preposition.

Meanwhile, the other object is ‘cognate object’. The relevant NP in this object usually contains a
noun morphologically derived from (and hence cognate with) the verb stem.

    e.g.

    •      Mother sewn a sewing

    •      She draw a beautiful drawing

The other object is called ‘object of concern’. They are clearly neither affected (direct) nor
affected (resultant) objects.

    e.g.

    •      Nunung is sipping his coffee

    •      Nindi is watching Troy

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There is a hierarchy of ‘objecthood’. The considerable example is the Direct Object (DO).
The characteristics are:

   •   Has a particularly close tie to the main verb

   •   Is an obligatory sentence constituent

   •   Immediately follows the main verb

   •   Will not occur in a paraphrase involving a preposition

   •   Can be the subject of the corresponding passive sentence

       Study this example:

       1a      America supplied tanks to the Israelis

       1b      America supplied the Israelis with tanks

In 1a, tanks is a DO (direct object) while Israelis is an (OO) oblique object. On the other hand, in
1b, tanks is an OO while Israelis is a DO.

Since those sentences are close in meaning –both of them describe events of supplying tanks- we
can see them as containing the same roles (agent, patient, neutral). They differs only to which
role is chosen as direct object and so that presented as more central, because more closely related
to the verb.

Note that they cannot occur with a preposition in this position, instead of they could become
the subject of the corresponding passive:

       2a *America supplied with tanks to the Israelis

       2b *America supplied to the Israelis with tanks

       2c Tanks were supplied to the Israelis by America

       2d The Israelis were supplied with tanks by America

       Then,

       2e      *America supplied with tanks

       But when the PP is omissible, they will become:

       2f      America supplied tanks
2g       America supplied the Israelis

The NP in the PP is an OO because the NP in the PP might, as it were, have become the object,
had the other NP not done so. The OO is omissible, as we have observed, and cannot generally
become the subject of a passive sentence:

        2h       *The Israeli were supplied tanks to by America

The effect of becoming an object is important. The syntactic effect has been discussed; but there
is also a semantic effect, which varies from cases like number 2.



   3. Indirect Object

   a) Exist when a verb is followed by two NPs, neither of which is associated with a
      preposition. See this sentence:

        3        Yucha gives Nindy (IO) a candy (DO)

   b)    May occur as an OO (Oblique Object), and can usually be omitted without affecting the
        grammaticality of the sentence, whereas the DO cannot be omitted [see the example on
        page 326-328]

        Below are the passive formation cases on DO and IO:

        4a       Nunung lent that map (DO) to Yuni (OO)

        4b       That map was given to Yuni by Nunung

        While,

        4c       Nunung lent Yuni (IO) that map (DO)

        4d       Yuni was lent that map by Nunung

        But not always like those, because we can see these sentences:

        5a       Nindy asked Yucha a help

        5b       ?Yucha was asked a help by Nindy

        And also study these:

        6a       Sister played me Dakon

        6b       *I was played Dakon by sister


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The NP that immediately follow the verb has a privileged status, both syntactically and
semantically. When only one NP is available for this role (that is, in two-place propositions)
there would seem to be a hierarchy of ‘objecthood’. When two NPs are available for the role in
three-place propositions, the situation is more complex.



   4. Complement

These sentences below are Attributive complement because they describe the class membership
of the subject noun, or ascribe an attribute to it:

      7a       Cinderella was pretty

      7b       Cinderella was a princess

Those can also be called ‘subject complement’ cause it relate back to the subject noun. Then, in
7b the noun ‘a princess’ is a ‘nominal complement’. Those complements are ‘state
complements’ since they are found in stative sentences and describe states.

Those sentences below are the type of ‘result complements’:

      8a       The mangoes are turning yellow

      8b       Yucha became a bachelor of english department

The complement cannot become the subject of a passive sentence.

Meanwhile, the identify complement can be shown in:

      9a Nunung is the man with a bunch of dollar in his wallet.

The NP is always a definite NP. That sentence can be reversed:

      9b The man with a bunch of dollar in his wallet is Nunung.

Let us study this:

      9c Nunung is (to be identified as) the man with a bunch of dollar in his wallet.

The locative complement can be shown in:

      10 Yuni is in her study room

Locative complement is usually a prepositional phrase. Sometimes it is used as a place adverb.
Corresponding on that, we can also recognize a ‘directional complement’ in sentences, like:

      11       Nindy hid under the table
12       Yucha walked across the hospital

Directional complements only occur in nonstate sentences.

The italicized constituents in the sentences in 12 are also often called complements:

      12a Nunung comes back home safe

      12b Yuni talked the issue honest

      12c Nindy always buys her spinach fresh

      12d Yucha coloured her book green

12 a and 12 b are intensive to the subject, then others to the object. In some cases, they can be
substituted by adverbs. We can also make paraphrase constructions like:

12 e Nindy always buys her spinach in fresh condition

12 f Yuni was honest when she talked the issue, etc.



   5. Adjuncts

Adjuncts are usually adverbials, whether they are adverb phrases, PP, adverbs, or subordinate
clauses of time, place, manner, and so on, that distributionally function like adverbials.

Adjuncts are clearly a rather ‘mixed bag’, in that syntactically there are numerous subclasses
which have different and overlapping distribution, and they fill a variety of semantic roles.




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Morphological mapping of grammatical functions

   Introduction
   How are gramatical functions mapped onto morphological representatios?

   We will begin with a preliminary discussion intended to provide the necessery background
   for understanding the key syntactic and semantic concepts that are involved. First introduce
   the notions of thematic roles, grammatical relations and the teory of case assigment, next
   explore the morphological effects of syntatic rules that change the canonical pairing of
   thematic roles with grammatical function. And the final part of the chapter will take the
   discussion further afield through an investigation of the phonomenon of incorporation
   whereby the syntax requiresthe inclutionof one word within onother.

   Predicates, arguments and lexical entries
   Normaly, sentences are contructed in such a way that some constituents identify particular
   individuals or things (or more abstract entities like ideas) and other contituents which
   indicate individuals or entities are called referring expreesions, while those wich attribute to
   them properties, processes, actions, relations or states are called predicates.

   e.g : a. my sister cried

             b. she will go

             c The car crashed

   the sentence a refers to an individual and predecates the property crying of that individual at
   some time in the past. In sentence b the property of going is predicated of the individual she.
   Finnaly, sentenses c the property of crash is attribute to an entity. Predicates take referring
   expressions as their arguments (my sister, she, the car).

1. Theta-roles and lexical entries
   Language use syntax and inflectional morphologi to encode some of the sematic relations
   which obtain in sentence between a prdicate and its arguments. We will use the term theta-
   roles (0-rules) for these sematic relations. (they are also called (abstract) case relations or
   thematic relations in the leterature.)
Recognition of 0-rules is essentially based on the intuition which is widely shared among
   linguists that there is a relatively small number of syntactically relevant sematic properties
   that play a role in the transitiveity systems of language.

   Gruber (1965,1976) and Fillmore (1968) define of Theta-roles:
   Agent is the case of the individual (usually animate) that instigates the action identified by
   the verb. e.g., (d) Mamat killed the chicken
   Instrumental is the case of the inanimate instrument used to bring about the state of affairs
   described by the verb. e.g., (e) mother whashed with a brush
   Patient is the case of the entity or individual that undergoes the process or action described
   by the verb. e.g., (f) Toni punched the board
   Benefactive is the case of the individual who gains from the action or prosess described by
   the verb.e.g., (g) Kai gave his girlfriend letter.
         Theme is semantically the most neutral case. e.g., (h) Hari gave Mia new hand phone.
Locative is the case that indicates the location, direction or sparial orientation of the event, state
or action identified by the verb e.g., (i) tommorow I will go to beijing.

   Theta-roles are essentially used to characterise transitivity. They specity the parts palyed by
   the arguments representing different participants is the action, state or process indicated by
   the verb.

   Intransitive verbs are one-place predicates.they occur in frames with one argument. e.g., (j)
   Agung slept.

   Transitive verb are two-place pridicates.e.g., (k) Mamat killed the duck.

   Ditransitive verbs are three place predicates. e.g., (l) Mother put the ice cream in the freezer

   In order to ensure that a verb appears in the right syntactic frames, the lexicon must specify
   the 0-roles which it requires.

   The lexical entries for the verbs in e.g. (j) must contain the following information.




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e.g.,

      (k) slep V (agent)
      kill           V (agent patient)
      put            V (agent goal theme )
      .0-rules are associated directly with NPs by phrase structure rules, as shown in

       e.g.

              a. Sà NPVP
                   (agent)

                   b. VP à V    NP
                <patient>

             c. NP à Det N

             d.N à Nsg, Npl

             e. Det -à the

             f. V à Vtrns (i.e. transitive verb)
        The tree should look like this

                                                   S




              NP                                                           VP

              (agent)

                                                                 V                 NP



                         <patient>

Det                                  N[sg]             V[trns]       Det         N[pl]

The                                  clown             tickled       the        children
We will require each lexical entry for a verb to include the 0-roles which that verb assigns
 to its arguments.To this and, a wellformedness principle called the Theta-Critorion will be
 incorporated in the grammar and given the task of ensuring that: a verb is only used in
 frames where the requisite arguments are present, and those arguments all have the
 prescribed 0-roles.

 Symbols X and Y are used as variables to represent any entity or individual that can function
 as arguments of these predicates with the 0-rules af agent, patient, theme etc.

 The entry for a verb in the lexicon will include a subcategorisation template showing its
 argument stucture requerenments.

    a. tickle                       V

             #TICKLE     (X?      Y?)

 e.g., The clown ticled the children

  b. wash:              V

# WASH 1 (X?)

 e.g., This curtain washes well

# WASH2 (X? Y?)

 e.g., peter washed the curtains




 the lexical entries in tell us which senses of wash and tickle require two arguments, and
 which particular 0-roles hold between those arguments in a particular sense of the verb. To
 solve this problem we need to add a further dimension to the model of grammatical analysis,
 namely that of grammatical relations.




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2. Grammatical relations
   Syntactic categories like noun phrase and verb phrase specify the syntactic type of particular
   constituents.the syntactic type of a constituent is determined by the category og the head of
   that constituent.A noun phrase is a constituent whose head is a noun while a verb phrase is a
   constituent whose head is a verb, and so on.

   o-roles, specify a sematic relationship between a predicate ad its arguments

   grammatical relations indicate the grammatical relationship that holds between two syntactic
   constituents in a sentence.they are determined, not by semantic considerations, but by the
   syntactic position of the particular contituent. The grammatical relations that we shall use are
   verb phrase, subject, object, second object and oblique. They are defined in tuen below

   The easient grammatical relation to recognise is verb phrase (VP). The term VP is commonly
   used ambigously by generative grammarians to refer both to a syntactic category, and to a
   grramatical realation as we are doing here. The grammatical relation VP has a verb as its
   syntactic head e.g., Andi came. Andi is S and ame is VP

   All declarative sentences en English must have a subject (S).the subject is the topic about
   which the rest of the sentence says nothing, the subject is the NP the has the 0-role og agent,
   if that role is present, the subject is the NP that precedes the VP, and with which the verb
   agrees in number.

   In reality, however, many subject do not hava all these properties, ae we shall soon see.The
   NP that immediately follow the verb is the object and the NP that comes after that object NP
   is called the second object. e.g., Andi send Ani latter.

   Grammatical relations is surronded by a degree of theoretical controversy, there is
   widespread agreement about the purpose which the serve.

   Once the need for grammatical relations is regognised, grammars must perform the two
   tasks:

   1. they must state how 0-roles are mapped on to grammar of a particular language. For
      example, English mapping principles may take this form:
0-role correspondens     grammatical function

       agent                                           subject

       patient                                      object of verb

       locative                                              oblique NP




   2. they must state how grammatical functions are maked on the surface, e.g. by word order,
       prepositions or case inflection.
    Various syntavtic rules which may mask the grammatical function of a particular NP. Much
   of the morphological camplexityfound in languages aries from the making og such masked
   grammatical function.

Grammatical Function Changing Rules

       Grammatical functions are hierarchically ordered across languages. The hierarchy
depends on the relative likelihood of NPs associated with particular grammatical functions being
affected by certain syntactic rules. Keenan and Comrie (1977, 1979) have established this
hierarchy:

       Subject > direct object > non-direct object > possessor

       Such rules mask the relationship between the surface manifestation of grammatical
function (GF), which is often marked case or word order, and the semantic role of an argument.
GF changing rule tend to have significant morphological repercussions which typically affect
verbs more than other word-classes. these are some repercussion:

   1. Passive

       Often sentences expressing the same proposition can be realised in a variety of ways,
       depending on how grammatical relations are encoded using the syntax and morphology.
       Normaly, where such choice exist, one way of expressing a propositions is marked and
       another is unmarked.



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a. Active voice                                                  Patient/ object
                                                                          accusative
       Agent/ subject                                                     Esmeralda
                                           examined                          Her
       Nominative
                                           examined
       The Vet
                                                                              Agent
       She                                                                 Oblique NP
                                           was examined                     by the Vet
       b. Passive voice            was examinedbalait-ABSthe       by her The sentence above,
       Patient/ subject              man cut the tree with an       with the subject as agent
                                     axe'Antipassivebayihe-        preceding the verb and the
       Nominative                    ABSthe man cut the tree         object, who is patient,
                                    with an axe'Andrew gave          following the verb, are
       Esmeralda                    AgentSubjectAndrew gave       unmarked. The agent who is
                                     AgentSubjectUmwaana            also the subject, receives
   She       a.b.a.b.a.    b.a.
                                    Childthe child has thrown       nominative case and the
   b.a.b.The order of affixes
                                         the book in to the           patient, who is object
   reflects the order in which
                                    water'Umwaana Childthe          receives accusative case.
   the associated syntactic
                                    child has thrown the book          Passive can be semi-
   ‘operations’ apply.
                                        into the watera-li-           formally stated as in:
                                  menyas/he-fut-breaks/he will     Subject à oblique (or null)
  Morphological derivations
                                      break Kapare's lega-li-           Object à subject
must directly reflect syntactic
                                  menyas/he-fut-breaks/he will
 derivation and the syntactic
                                          break Kapare's                    Antipassive
    derivation must directly
                                  legAbalenziBoysthe boys will         The antipassive is the
     reflect morphological
                                    cook potatoes'kaparea-li-        process used in ergative
derivationNameCausativeAp
                                    fumb-is-aboys SP-future-            languages to turn a
plicativeReciprocalPassive3T
                                   cook-BVSKapere will make           transitive verb into an
ransitive4StativeReversiveNa
                                     the boys cook potatoes.'      intransitive verb. It causes
meCausativeApplicativeReci
                                     The evidence of Mirror       the object NP to be realised
procalPassive3Transitive4St
                                             Principle              as an oblique NP, or to be
ativeReversiveCausativeAppl
                                                                    deleted. The effect of the
   icativeReciprocalPassive
                                     Mirror Principle was         antipassive is comparable to
                                  applied in Luganda’s major       that of the passive. Just as
                                       language, Bantu.              the passive demotes the
                                     Verbal extensions in              original subject to an
                                            Luganda               oblique NP in a nominative
                                                                     accusative language, the
                                    Shape/-is-//-ir-//-agan-//-      antipassive demotes the
                                        ibu-//-i-//-ik-//-              original object of a
ulul-/Shape*/-keun-//gebug-     transitive sentence to an
gebugan//-kena-/Causative-          oblique NP and the
                                   underlying agent NP
                                 argument which should
                              otherwise be in the ergative
                                 is put in the absolutive.
                                  This can be seen in the
                                    example of Eskimo
                                     languages below:
                              yugubaɳ gul yara-ɳ gu tree-
                               ABShe-ERGman-ERGcut-
                                  PASTyaragunba-l-ɳ a-
                                       nyubaguyugu-
                                gubaɳ gubarri-ɳ guman-
                                   ABScut-ANTIPAST-
                                PASTit-DATtree-DATit-
                                   INSTaxe-INSTABS =
                                 absolute; ANTIPAST =
                                    antipassive; ERG =
                                     ergative; INST =
                              instrumental; DAT = dative
                                        Applicative
                               The applicative is another
                               common GF-changing rule
                                      with significant
                                       morphological
                                      consequences. It
                                 characterizes using this
                                          schema:
                                              Oblique
                                       Indirect object
                                       à object; object à 2nd
                                           object
                                       Null
                                                       (or
                                          oblique)

                                      Some of applicative
                                           are:
                                Benefactive: a NP in the
                              benefactive case that has the
                               GF of second object can be
                               realised as a direct object
                               when the applicative rule
                                 applies. For example:
                                      the flowersto

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Helenthemebenefactiveobje
     ctoblique NPHelenthe
   flowersbenefactivetheme
 object2nd objectLocative:
     in many languages the
applicative can be used with
  locative meaning which is
 expressed in English using
 propositions like in, on, at,
    etc. This is the example
       from Kinyarwanda
             languages.
      y-a-taa-yeigitabomu
      maaziSP-past-throw-
  ASPbookin watery-a-taa-
    ye-moamaaziigitaboSP-
    past-throw-ASP-APPL
          (in)waterbook
 Possessor: when possessor
 raising take takes place, an
   NP which function as the
  ‘possessor’ modifying the
  head of a possessive noun
   phrase is turned into the
    object of the verb. The
  original object is shunted
into a new slot and becomes
the second object. Possessor
    raising is shown below:
 NP possessor in possessive NP à object
               of verb
 Object of verb à 2nd object
This is example from Bantu
             Language:
            okugulukw-
aKaperelegofKapereKapere
        okuguluKapereleg
             Causative
The changes in grammatical
     function caused by the
causative GF process can be
        stated in this way:

        Null à subject
       Subject à object
      Object à 2nd object
This is the example from
      Luganda language
   ba-li-fumb-alumondeSP-
          futore-cook-
BVSpotatoesabalenzilumon
deboyspotatoesSP = subject
 prefix; BVS = basic verbal
             suffix
  From the example above,
  the causative introduces a
 new agentive NP as subject
 in [b]. The original subject
 becomes the object and the
  original object becomes a
    second object. Equally
important, the verb receives
   the causative suffix –is-.
        Miror Principle

       Introduction

   The traditional view on
 morphology is that word-
formation takes place in the
        lexicon, and that
  morphological rules are
   different in nature and
     operate on different
   primitive elements than
syntactic rules: morphology
    operates on stems and
   morphemes to produce
      words, while syntax
     operates on words to
     produce phrases and
 sentences. In other words,
  the essential property of
      morphology is, it is
      concerned with the
   structure of words; the
essential property of syntax
 is, it is concerned with the
    structure of sentences.

   The Mirror Principle
    The idea of Mirror

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Principle was proposed by
Baker (1985). His argument
 is that derivation of words
 and their relationship in a
  sentence and in meaning
  couldn’t be based only on
       functional matter.
       Reviewing that the
 morphological derivations
      must directly reflect
syntactic derivation and the
  syntactic derivation must
         directly reflect
 morphological derivation.
  In other words, syntactic
       and morphological
      orderings stand in a
    symmetrical relation.
 Unfortunately, Baker does
   not specify according to
which general principles are
      affixes merged into
   syntactic structure. He
   argued that the Mirror
Principle is the result of the
     strict locality of head
  movement (of cyclic head
      movement) through
  incorporation of a lexical
 root to a morpheme. It this
  condition syntax operates
       on both words and
morphemes, and a complex
   word can be formed by
  syntactic rules, and more
specifically head movement.
         In short, if the
 morphological structure of
 a complex word is derived
through head-movement of
the lexical root to the heads
  where the morphemes are
   base-generated, the MP
 follows straightforwardly:
“the order of morphemes in
a complex word reflects the
natural syntactic
embedding of the heads that
   correspond to those
      morphemes”

The rule of Mirror Principle
       (Baker 1985):

  ExampleGlossn-a-mu-zin-
 is-a‘I made him dance’a-n-
   zin-ir-a‘he is dancing for
  me’ba-a-kub-agan-a‘they
hit each other’n-a-kub-ibw-
a‘I was beaten’y-a-ba-kaab-
 y-a‘she made them cry’ga-
     nyw-ek-a‘it (water) is
  drinkable’oku-pang-ulul-
a‘to unstuck (take things off
             a pile)’
 The data above is analyzed
with : Causative Applicative
Reciprocal Passive (CARP),
 where the affixation can be
           classified.
  As in Luganda language,
  the changing of affixation
   can be clearly recognize
      even there are some
inconsistent form. Compare
 with the sample below, the
   changing of affixation in
      Sundanese, Mirror
principle cannot be applied
           perfectly.

ExampleGlossAbdi
merintahkeun maneha gerua
gebug eta‘I made him
hit’Maneha gebug keur
abdi‘he is hitting
something’Sadayana gebug-
gebukan‘they hit each
other’Abdi kena gebug‘I was
hitManeha merintahkeun
sadaya gerua gebug eta‘she
made them hit’Cai eta tiasa

                           19
dile’leut‘it (water) is
drinkable’Jalma eta
mindahakeun cai‘she move
the drink.’
Analysis using C A R P
(Causative Applicative
Reciprocal Passive)

        ApplicativeReciprocal
        Passive---
   a.   Causative-Applicative
        combination
   b.   Causative-Reciprocal
   c.   Causative-Passive
   d.   Applicative-Causative
   e.   Applicative-
        Reciprocal


1. The counter arguments
   against Mirror Principle

   However, as Baker has
   lacking explanation of his
   idea on mirror principle, it
   raises      some       counter
   arguments.
   Federico Damonte (1998)
   claims:
             that        argument
             structure changing
             affixes in Pular are
             merged in a fixed
             hierarchy of theta-
             related functional
             heads and that the
             complements they
             introduce        are
merged        in     the
          specifiers of these
          functional
          projections.
Von Stechow (2002) and
Zeijlstra (20007):
          the     position      of
          affixes does not
          correspond to the
          position           where
          they take scope
          from.
Sadock (1985):
           propose a theory
          of     auto       lexical
          syntax               that
          overview             the
          autonomous            of
          morphology           and
          syntax        although
          they        are     held
          together.
Hyman           and     Katamba
(1992):
          morphological
          position             and
          phonological
          position infer the
          changing order of
          morpheme              in
          words.

                                 21
2. Conclusion

      It seems that mirror
      principle seems to be
      essentially correct, but
      languages may show
      variation in the way
      which they set their
      own    parameter.           As
      seen         from           the
      examples             above,
      comparing           Luganda
      and            Sundanese
      language,                   the
      affixation     which         is
      essential in Luganda
      in changing grammar
      doesn’t       appear         in
      Sundanese. It is an
      evident      that        mirror
      principle          can      be
      applied       in     certain
      languages. Moreover,
      the grammars of many
      languages           provide
      alternative        ways      of
      expressing the same
      kind of proportional
      meaning.
it-INSTaxe-INSTgunba-nbaɳgubarri-ɳgu




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  • 1. GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION 1. Subject Think of a staff meeting, for example. There are different kinds of people, different ages, sexes, qualifications, etc and partly because of these differences; each person plays a different role in the meeting. Likewise words in a sentence: there are different kinds of words – nouns, verbs, adjectives and so on, and they each play a different role in the sentence. Each role gives contributions to the sentence's meaning. For example, Pat likes beans, the subject Pat contributes the `like-er' (subject) and the object beans contributes the `like-ee' (object). If we do not know about the rule, surely we do not know about the meaning of the sentence. In learning grammatical function, there will have a set of terms of grammatical description. The terms are subject, object, oblique object, indirect object, complement and adjunct. In terms of subject, a distinction is frequently drawn between grammatical subject, logical subject, and thematic or psychological subject. Grammatical subject is the grammatical forms that can function as the subject. For example, in English grammar, the grammatical subjects are noun phrases, prepositional phrases, verb phrases, and noun clauses. Sometimes, the subject of a sentence can be a nominalzed sentence or sentence like constituent, as in: - That Edinburgh’s New Town is magnificent is undeniable - For you to run off with Mary would be madness. When no such constituent is available to act as subject a ‘dummy’ subject is supplied; this is the case with ‘weather’ expressions. E.g. It is raining. Where a nominalized sentence is extraposed, it will become: - That Edinburgh’s New Town is magnificent is undeniable - It is undeniable that Edinburgh’s New Town Another item that operates like a dummy subject is there. Existential asserts the existence of something. Eg. There are glasses in the drinks cupboard. Deictic point to something. Eg. There is the glass. There are differences between deictic and existential. In deictic, pronounced with non-reduced form.E.g. there is /ðɛəriz/, there are /ðɛəra/; There need not be a subject (For instance, The glass is there); There can be questioned (Where is the glass?); Definite NP means there typically restricted to sentences with definite NP ( the) . In existential, pronounced with reduced form. Eg. there is /ðəz/, there are /ðəra/; There must 1
  • 2. Derived from be a subject (For example: There is a glass); There can’t be questioned (where are the glasses in the drinks cupboard?); Indefinite NP means there typically restricted to sentences with indefinite NP ( a and an) E.g. A glass is on the table. Subject in the grammar of English can be derived from transformational approach to description. In this approach, we distinguish an underlying from a surface level of description. Suppose the sentence: Everyone believes that Charlie is handsome Everyone believes (Charlie is handsome) → Underlying structure Derived from Everyone believes Charlie to be handsome → Alternative realization Logical subject is usually related to sentences involving an (agent) participant. Agent is the "doer" who or what that causes the action. For instance: William invaded England in 1066. G L England was invaded by William in 1066. G L There are many typical roles for the subject in logical subject. First, agentive subject performs the action as in John beat the dog. Second, instrumental subject is used to carry out the action as in The axe smashed the door. Third, dative subject as in Harry knows that his wife is unfaithful. Fourth, goal subject where the action is directed towards/from as in Harry received a gold medallion from the Royal Society. Fifth, source subject is where the action originated as in The Royal Society presented a gold medallion to Harry. Sixth, locative place subject where the action occurs as in Edinburgh is cold, wet and windy. Seventh, patient subject undergoes the action and changes its state as in The butter is melting. Last, neutral subject mindlessly performs the action as in Mary is very tired. Thematic subject is characterized by textual considerations – this is what the sentence is about. For example;
  • 3. 1. John (G,L,T) took the largest kitten 2. The largest kitten (G,T) was taken by John (L) 3. The largest kitten (T), we (G,L) gave away. 2. Object In active declarative sentence with unmarked word order, these four grammatical features characterize the object: 1. Directly follows the verb 2. Not in construction with a preposition 3. Can become the subject of the corresponding passive sentence 4. An obligatory constituent with transitive verbs One kind of objects is object of result and it is also called an ‘effected’ or ‘factitive’ object. e.g. • Maggie move the table • The workmen are cleaning the horse cages It can become the subject of a passive sentence, and there are no paraphrases involving preposition. Meanwhile, the other object is ‘cognate object’. The relevant NP in this object usually contains a noun morphologically derived from (and hence cognate with) the verb stem. e.g. • Mother sewn a sewing • She draw a beautiful drawing The other object is called ‘object of concern’. They are clearly neither affected (direct) nor affected (resultant) objects. e.g. • Nunung is sipping his coffee • Nindi is watching Troy 3
  • 4. There is a hierarchy of ‘objecthood’. The considerable example is the Direct Object (DO). The characteristics are: • Has a particularly close tie to the main verb • Is an obligatory sentence constituent • Immediately follows the main verb • Will not occur in a paraphrase involving a preposition • Can be the subject of the corresponding passive sentence Study this example: 1a America supplied tanks to the Israelis 1b America supplied the Israelis with tanks In 1a, tanks is a DO (direct object) while Israelis is an (OO) oblique object. On the other hand, in 1b, tanks is an OO while Israelis is a DO. Since those sentences are close in meaning –both of them describe events of supplying tanks- we can see them as containing the same roles (agent, patient, neutral). They differs only to which role is chosen as direct object and so that presented as more central, because more closely related to the verb. Note that they cannot occur with a preposition in this position, instead of they could become the subject of the corresponding passive: 2a *America supplied with tanks to the Israelis 2b *America supplied to the Israelis with tanks 2c Tanks were supplied to the Israelis by America 2d The Israelis were supplied with tanks by America Then, 2e *America supplied with tanks But when the PP is omissible, they will become: 2f America supplied tanks
  • 5. 2g America supplied the Israelis The NP in the PP is an OO because the NP in the PP might, as it were, have become the object, had the other NP not done so. The OO is omissible, as we have observed, and cannot generally become the subject of a passive sentence: 2h *The Israeli were supplied tanks to by America The effect of becoming an object is important. The syntactic effect has been discussed; but there is also a semantic effect, which varies from cases like number 2. 3. Indirect Object a) Exist when a verb is followed by two NPs, neither of which is associated with a preposition. See this sentence: 3 Yucha gives Nindy (IO) a candy (DO) b) May occur as an OO (Oblique Object), and can usually be omitted without affecting the grammaticality of the sentence, whereas the DO cannot be omitted [see the example on page 326-328] Below are the passive formation cases on DO and IO: 4a Nunung lent that map (DO) to Yuni (OO) 4b That map was given to Yuni by Nunung While, 4c Nunung lent Yuni (IO) that map (DO) 4d Yuni was lent that map by Nunung But not always like those, because we can see these sentences: 5a Nindy asked Yucha a help 5b ?Yucha was asked a help by Nindy And also study these: 6a Sister played me Dakon 6b *I was played Dakon by sister 5
  • 6. The NP that immediately follow the verb has a privileged status, both syntactically and semantically. When only one NP is available for this role (that is, in two-place propositions) there would seem to be a hierarchy of ‘objecthood’. When two NPs are available for the role in three-place propositions, the situation is more complex. 4. Complement These sentences below are Attributive complement because they describe the class membership of the subject noun, or ascribe an attribute to it: 7a Cinderella was pretty 7b Cinderella was a princess Those can also be called ‘subject complement’ cause it relate back to the subject noun. Then, in 7b the noun ‘a princess’ is a ‘nominal complement’. Those complements are ‘state complements’ since they are found in stative sentences and describe states. Those sentences below are the type of ‘result complements’: 8a The mangoes are turning yellow 8b Yucha became a bachelor of english department The complement cannot become the subject of a passive sentence. Meanwhile, the identify complement can be shown in: 9a Nunung is the man with a bunch of dollar in his wallet. The NP is always a definite NP. That sentence can be reversed: 9b The man with a bunch of dollar in his wallet is Nunung. Let us study this: 9c Nunung is (to be identified as) the man with a bunch of dollar in his wallet. The locative complement can be shown in: 10 Yuni is in her study room Locative complement is usually a prepositional phrase. Sometimes it is used as a place adverb. Corresponding on that, we can also recognize a ‘directional complement’ in sentences, like: 11 Nindy hid under the table
  • 7. 12 Yucha walked across the hospital Directional complements only occur in nonstate sentences. The italicized constituents in the sentences in 12 are also often called complements: 12a Nunung comes back home safe 12b Yuni talked the issue honest 12c Nindy always buys her spinach fresh 12d Yucha coloured her book green 12 a and 12 b are intensive to the subject, then others to the object. In some cases, they can be substituted by adverbs. We can also make paraphrase constructions like: 12 e Nindy always buys her spinach in fresh condition 12 f Yuni was honest when she talked the issue, etc. 5. Adjuncts Adjuncts are usually adverbials, whether they are adverb phrases, PP, adverbs, or subordinate clauses of time, place, manner, and so on, that distributionally function like adverbials. Adjuncts are clearly a rather ‘mixed bag’, in that syntactically there are numerous subclasses which have different and overlapping distribution, and they fill a variety of semantic roles. 7
  • 8. Morphological mapping of grammatical functions Introduction How are gramatical functions mapped onto morphological representatios? We will begin with a preliminary discussion intended to provide the necessery background for understanding the key syntactic and semantic concepts that are involved. First introduce the notions of thematic roles, grammatical relations and the teory of case assigment, next explore the morphological effects of syntatic rules that change the canonical pairing of thematic roles with grammatical function. And the final part of the chapter will take the discussion further afield through an investigation of the phonomenon of incorporation whereby the syntax requiresthe inclutionof one word within onother. Predicates, arguments and lexical entries Normaly, sentences are contructed in such a way that some constituents identify particular individuals or things (or more abstract entities like ideas) and other contituents which indicate individuals or entities are called referring expreesions, while those wich attribute to them properties, processes, actions, relations or states are called predicates. e.g : a. my sister cried b. she will go c The car crashed the sentence a refers to an individual and predecates the property crying of that individual at some time in the past. In sentence b the property of going is predicated of the individual she. Finnaly, sentenses c the property of crash is attribute to an entity. Predicates take referring expressions as their arguments (my sister, she, the car). 1. Theta-roles and lexical entries Language use syntax and inflectional morphologi to encode some of the sematic relations which obtain in sentence between a prdicate and its arguments. We will use the term theta- roles (0-rules) for these sematic relations. (they are also called (abstract) case relations or thematic relations in the leterature.)
  • 9. Recognition of 0-rules is essentially based on the intuition which is widely shared among linguists that there is a relatively small number of syntactically relevant sematic properties that play a role in the transitiveity systems of language. Gruber (1965,1976) and Fillmore (1968) define of Theta-roles: Agent is the case of the individual (usually animate) that instigates the action identified by the verb. e.g., (d) Mamat killed the chicken Instrumental is the case of the inanimate instrument used to bring about the state of affairs described by the verb. e.g., (e) mother whashed with a brush Patient is the case of the entity or individual that undergoes the process or action described by the verb. e.g., (f) Toni punched the board Benefactive is the case of the individual who gains from the action or prosess described by the verb.e.g., (g) Kai gave his girlfriend letter. Theme is semantically the most neutral case. e.g., (h) Hari gave Mia new hand phone. Locative is the case that indicates the location, direction or sparial orientation of the event, state or action identified by the verb e.g., (i) tommorow I will go to beijing. Theta-roles are essentially used to characterise transitivity. They specity the parts palyed by the arguments representing different participants is the action, state or process indicated by the verb. Intransitive verbs are one-place predicates.they occur in frames with one argument. e.g., (j) Agung slept. Transitive verb are two-place pridicates.e.g., (k) Mamat killed the duck. Ditransitive verbs are three place predicates. e.g., (l) Mother put the ice cream in the freezer In order to ensure that a verb appears in the right syntactic frames, the lexicon must specify the 0-roles which it requires. The lexical entries for the verbs in e.g. (j) must contain the following information. 9
  • 10. e.g., (k) slep V (agent) kill V (agent patient) put V (agent goal theme ) .0-rules are associated directly with NPs by phrase structure rules, as shown in e.g. a. Sà NPVP (agent) b. VP à V NP <patient> c. NP à Det N d.N à Nsg, Npl e. Det -à the f. V à Vtrns (i.e. transitive verb) The tree should look like this S NP VP (agent) V NP <patient> Det N[sg] V[trns] Det N[pl] The clown tickled the children
  • 11. We will require each lexical entry for a verb to include the 0-roles which that verb assigns to its arguments.To this and, a wellformedness principle called the Theta-Critorion will be incorporated in the grammar and given the task of ensuring that: a verb is only used in frames where the requisite arguments are present, and those arguments all have the prescribed 0-roles. Symbols X and Y are used as variables to represent any entity or individual that can function as arguments of these predicates with the 0-rules af agent, patient, theme etc. The entry for a verb in the lexicon will include a subcategorisation template showing its argument stucture requerenments. a. tickle V #TICKLE (X? Y?) e.g., The clown ticled the children b. wash: V # WASH 1 (X?) e.g., This curtain washes well # WASH2 (X? Y?) e.g., peter washed the curtains the lexical entries in tell us which senses of wash and tickle require two arguments, and which particular 0-roles hold between those arguments in a particular sense of the verb. To solve this problem we need to add a further dimension to the model of grammatical analysis, namely that of grammatical relations. 11
  • 12. 2. Grammatical relations Syntactic categories like noun phrase and verb phrase specify the syntactic type of particular constituents.the syntactic type of a constituent is determined by the category og the head of that constituent.A noun phrase is a constituent whose head is a noun while a verb phrase is a constituent whose head is a verb, and so on. o-roles, specify a sematic relationship between a predicate ad its arguments grammatical relations indicate the grammatical relationship that holds between two syntactic constituents in a sentence.they are determined, not by semantic considerations, but by the syntactic position of the particular contituent. The grammatical relations that we shall use are verb phrase, subject, object, second object and oblique. They are defined in tuen below The easient grammatical relation to recognise is verb phrase (VP). The term VP is commonly used ambigously by generative grammarians to refer both to a syntactic category, and to a grramatical realation as we are doing here. The grammatical relation VP has a verb as its syntactic head e.g., Andi came. Andi is S and ame is VP All declarative sentences en English must have a subject (S).the subject is the topic about which the rest of the sentence says nothing, the subject is the NP the has the 0-role og agent, if that role is present, the subject is the NP that precedes the VP, and with which the verb agrees in number. In reality, however, many subject do not hava all these properties, ae we shall soon see.The NP that immediately follow the verb is the object and the NP that comes after that object NP is called the second object. e.g., Andi send Ani latter. Grammatical relations is surronded by a degree of theoretical controversy, there is widespread agreement about the purpose which the serve. Once the need for grammatical relations is regognised, grammars must perform the two tasks: 1. they must state how 0-roles are mapped on to grammar of a particular language. For example, English mapping principles may take this form:
  • 13. 0-role correspondens grammatical function agent subject patient object of verb locative oblique NP 2. they must state how grammatical functions are maked on the surface, e.g. by word order, prepositions or case inflection. Various syntavtic rules which may mask the grammatical function of a particular NP. Much of the morphological camplexityfound in languages aries from the making og such masked grammatical function. Grammatical Function Changing Rules Grammatical functions are hierarchically ordered across languages. The hierarchy depends on the relative likelihood of NPs associated with particular grammatical functions being affected by certain syntactic rules. Keenan and Comrie (1977, 1979) have established this hierarchy: Subject > direct object > non-direct object > possessor Such rules mask the relationship between the surface manifestation of grammatical function (GF), which is often marked case or word order, and the semantic role of an argument. GF changing rule tend to have significant morphological repercussions which typically affect verbs more than other word-classes. these are some repercussion: 1. Passive Often sentences expressing the same proposition can be realised in a variety of ways, depending on how grammatical relations are encoded using the syntax and morphology. Normaly, where such choice exist, one way of expressing a propositions is marked and another is unmarked. 13
  • 14. a. Active voice Patient/ object accusative Agent/ subject Esmeralda examined Her Nominative examined The Vet Agent She Oblique NP was examined by the Vet b. Passive voice was examinedbalait-ABSthe by her The sentence above, Patient/ subject man cut the tree with an with the subject as agent axe'Antipassivebayihe- preceding the verb and the Nominative ABSthe man cut the tree object, who is patient, with an axe'Andrew gave following the verb, are Esmeralda AgentSubjectAndrew gave unmarked. The agent who is AgentSubjectUmwaana also the subject, receives She a.b.a.b.a. b.a. Childthe child has thrown nominative case and the b.a.b.The order of affixes the book in to the patient, who is object reflects the order in which water'Umwaana Childthe receives accusative case. the associated syntactic child has thrown the book Passive can be semi- ‘operations’ apply. into the watera-li- formally stated as in: menyas/he-fut-breaks/he will Subject à oblique (or null) Morphological derivations break Kapare's lega-li- Object à subject must directly reflect syntactic menyas/he-fut-breaks/he will derivation and the syntactic break Kapare's Antipassive derivation must directly legAbalenziBoysthe boys will The antipassive is the reflect morphological cook potatoes'kaparea-li- process used in ergative derivationNameCausativeAp fumb-is-aboys SP-future- languages to turn a plicativeReciprocalPassive3T cook-BVSKapere will make transitive verb into an ransitive4StativeReversiveNa the boys cook potatoes.' intransitive verb. It causes meCausativeApplicativeReci The evidence of Mirror the object NP to be realised procalPassive3Transitive4St Principle as an oblique NP, or to be ativeReversiveCausativeAppl deleted. The effect of the icativeReciprocalPassive Mirror Principle was antipassive is comparable to applied in Luganda’s major that of the passive. Just as language, Bantu. the passive demotes the Verbal extensions in original subject to an Luganda oblique NP in a nominative accusative language, the Shape/-is-//-ir-//-agan-//- antipassive demotes the ibu-//-i-//-ik-//- original object of a
  • 15. ulul-/Shape*/-keun-//gebug- transitive sentence to an gebugan//-kena-/Causative- oblique NP and the underlying agent NP argument which should otherwise be in the ergative is put in the absolutive. This can be seen in the example of Eskimo languages below: yugubaɳ gul yara-ɳ gu tree- ABShe-ERGman-ERGcut- PASTyaragunba-l-ɳ a- nyubaguyugu- gubaɳ gubarri-ɳ guman- ABScut-ANTIPAST- PASTit-DATtree-DATit- INSTaxe-INSTABS = absolute; ANTIPAST = antipassive; ERG = ergative; INST = instrumental; DAT = dative Applicative The applicative is another common GF-changing rule with significant morphological consequences. It characterizes using this schema: Oblique Indirect object à object; object à 2nd object Null (or oblique) Some of applicative are: Benefactive: a NP in the benefactive case that has the GF of second object can be realised as a direct object when the applicative rule applies. For example: the flowersto 15
  • 16. Helenthemebenefactiveobje ctoblique NPHelenthe flowersbenefactivetheme object2nd objectLocative: in many languages the applicative can be used with locative meaning which is expressed in English using propositions like in, on, at, etc. This is the example from Kinyarwanda languages. y-a-taa-yeigitabomu maaziSP-past-throw- ASPbookin watery-a-taa- ye-moamaaziigitaboSP- past-throw-ASP-APPL (in)waterbook Possessor: when possessor raising take takes place, an NP which function as the ‘possessor’ modifying the head of a possessive noun phrase is turned into the object of the verb. The original object is shunted into a new slot and becomes the second object. Possessor raising is shown below: NP possessor in possessive NP à object of verb Object of verb à 2nd object This is example from Bantu Language: okugulukw- aKaperelegofKapereKapere okuguluKapereleg Causative The changes in grammatical function caused by the causative GF process can be stated in this way: Null à subject Subject à object Object à 2nd object
  • 17. This is the example from Luganda language ba-li-fumb-alumondeSP- futore-cook- BVSpotatoesabalenzilumon deboyspotatoesSP = subject prefix; BVS = basic verbal suffix From the example above, the causative introduces a new agentive NP as subject in [b]. The original subject becomes the object and the original object becomes a second object. Equally important, the verb receives the causative suffix –is-. Miror Principle Introduction The traditional view on morphology is that word- formation takes place in the lexicon, and that morphological rules are different in nature and operate on different primitive elements than syntactic rules: morphology operates on stems and morphemes to produce words, while syntax operates on words to produce phrases and sentences. In other words, the essential property of morphology is, it is concerned with the structure of words; the essential property of syntax is, it is concerned with the structure of sentences. The Mirror Principle The idea of Mirror 17
  • 18. Principle was proposed by Baker (1985). His argument is that derivation of words and their relationship in a sentence and in meaning couldn’t be based only on functional matter. Reviewing that the morphological derivations must directly reflect syntactic derivation and the syntactic derivation must directly reflect morphological derivation. In other words, syntactic and morphological orderings stand in a symmetrical relation. Unfortunately, Baker does not specify according to which general principles are affixes merged into syntactic structure. He argued that the Mirror Principle is the result of the strict locality of head movement (of cyclic head movement) through incorporation of a lexical root to a morpheme. It this condition syntax operates on both words and morphemes, and a complex word can be formed by syntactic rules, and more specifically head movement. In short, if the morphological structure of a complex word is derived through head-movement of the lexical root to the heads where the morphemes are base-generated, the MP follows straightforwardly: “the order of morphemes in a complex word reflects the
  • 19. natural syntactic embedding of the heads that correspond to those morphemes” The rule of Mirror Principle (Baker 1985): ExampleGlossn-a-mu-zin- is-a‘I made him dance’a-n- zin-ir-a‘he is dancing for me’ba-a-kub-agan-a‘they hit each other’n-a-kub-ibw- a‘I was beaten’y-a-ba-kaab- y-a‘she made them cry’ga- nyw-ek-a‘it (water) is drinkable’oku-pang-ulul- a‘to unstuck (take things off a pile)’ The data above is analyzed with : Causative Applicative Reciprocal Passive (CARP), where the affixation can be classified. As in Luganda language, the changing of affixation can be clearly recognize even there are some inconsistent form. Compare with the sample below, the changing of affixation in Sundanese, Mirror principle cannot be applied perfectly. ExampleGlossAbdi merintahkeun maneha gerua gebug eta‘I made him hit’Maneha gebug keur abdi‘he is hitting something’Sadayana gebug- gebukan‘they hit each other’Abdi kena gebug‘I was hitManeha merintahkeun sadaya gerua gebug eta‘she made them hit’Cai eta tiasa 19
  • 20. dile’leut‘it (water) is drinkable’Jalma eta mindahakeun cai‘she move the drink.’ Analysis using C A R P (Causative Applicative Reciprocal Passive) ApplicativeReciprocal Passive--- a. Causative-Applicative combination b. Causative-Reciprocal c. Causative-Passive d. Applicative-Causative e. Applicative- Reciprocal 1. The counter arguments against Mirror Principle However, as Baker has lacking explanation of his idea on mirror principle, it raises some counter arguments. Federico Damonte (1998) claims: that argument structure changing affixes in Pular are merged in a fixed hierarchy of theta- related functional heads and that the complements they introduce are
  • 21. merged in the specifiers of these functional projections. Von Stechow (2002) and Zeijlstra (20007): the position of affixes does not correspond to the position where they take scope from. Sadock (1985): propose a theory of auto lexical syntax that overview the autonomous of morphology and syntax although they are held together. Hyman and Katamba (1992): morphological position and phonological position infer the changing order of morpheme in words. 21
  • 22. 2. Conclusion It seems that mirror principle seems to be essentially correct, but languages may show variation in the way which they set their own parameter. As seen from the examples above, comparing Luganda and Sundanese language, the affixation which is essential in Luganda in changing grammar doesn’t appear in Sundanese. It is an evident that mirror principle can be applied in certain languages. Moreover, the grammars of many languages provide alternative ways of expressing the same kind of proportional meaning.