Abstract The goal of this article is to introduce to the field a particular subtype of valency-reducing strategies, referred to as oblique anticausativization below. This subtype differs from more common and better known dependent-marking types, such as, for instance, the canonical anticausative. Instead, oblique anticausatives are characterized by the preservation of the object case of the transitive-causative alternant, hence the term oblique. This object case marker shows up with the subject of the corresponding intransitive construction. We document the existence of this alternation in seven branches of Indo-European, particularly in the North-Central region, but also sporadically in the South-Eastern parts of the Indo-European area. Ruling out alternative accounts of the relevant geographical distribution, such as borrowing and shared innovation, we argue for a morphosyntactic isogloss common for Germanic, Baltic, Slavic and Italic. This is paralleled by isolated enclaves found in other branches of Indo-European, such as Ancient Greek, Anatolian and Indo-Aryan. Altogether, the evidence speaks for the existence of oblique anticausativization in the proto-language, thus motivating a reconstruction of this alternation for the grammar of Proto-Indo-European.

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倾斜抗癌药：印欧语系中的一种句法句法等式

摘要本文的目的是向该领域介绍一种降低化合价策略的特殊子类型，以下称为倾斜反电化。该子类型不同于更常见和众所周知的从属标记类型，例如规范的反因果关系。取而代之的是，倾斜的抗成因剂的特征是保留了传递性致使性交替词的客体，因此称为“倾斜”。该对象案例标记与相应的不及物结构的主题一起显示。我们记录了这种交替存在于印欧语的七个分支中，特别是在中北部地区，但也偶尔在印欧语地区的东南部出现。排除相关地理分布的替代账户，例如借用和共享创新，我们主张在日耳曼语，波罗的海语，斯拉夫语和斜体语中常见的句法句法等式。与之平行的还有在印欧语其他分支机构中发现的孤立飞地，例如古希腊语，安那托利亚语和印支雅利安语。总体而言，证据表明原始语言中存在倾斜的反因果关系化，从而促使了对原始印度-欧洲语法的这种交替的重构。