Abstract This paper presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the antipassive within the framework of Radical Construction Grammar. Based on function, this study identifies constructions in 70 languages from 25 language families and four geographical macro areas. Iconically motivated correlations were found between functions and the morphosyntactic strategies they employ. The results of this study suggest that constructions indicating the lower individuation of patients and constructions indicating the lower affectedness of patients, previously grouped together as ‘antipassive’, should be considered two separate construction types. This is based on their separate functions, the distinct morphosyntactic strategies used to encode them across languages, and differences in productivity with regard to semantic classes of verbs.

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反被动构造：跨语言形式和功能的关联

摘要本文在激进建构语法的框架内，对反被动语进行了跨语言研究。基于功能，本研究从25个语言族和四个地理宏区域中识别出70种语言的构造。发现功能和它们采用的形态句法策略之间具有标志性意义的相关性。这项研究的结果表明，先前被归类为“反被动”的表示患者个性化程度较低的结构和表示患者受影响程度较低的结构应被视为两种单独的结构类型。这是基于它们的独立功能，用于在各种语言中对它们进行编码的独特的形态句法策略以及动词的语义类别在生产率上的差异。