Volitivity and Subject Case Marking in Sinhala

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