Abstract This article investigates the derivational relationships among members of verbal paradigms in Kinyarwanda (Bantu JD61; Rwanda) by pursuing two interrelated goals. First, I describe a variety of derivational strategies for marking transitive and intransitive variants in change-of-state verb paradigms. Second, I focus on the detransitivising morpheme -ik which serves as one possible marking for intransitive members of these paradigms. Ultimately, I argue that this morpheme is a marker of middle voice, and the variety of readings which appear with this form can be subsumed under a single operation of argument suppression. Finally, I provide a discussion of reflexives and the apparent lack of a reflexive reading with -ik by arguing that this reading is blocked by either lexical reflexives or the reflexive prefix i-.

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状态变化范式与Kinyarwanda的中间

摘要本文通过追求两个相互关联的目标，研究了Kinyarwanda（班图JD61；卢旺达）的语言范式成员之间的派生关系。首先，我描述了各种在状态变化动词范式中标记和物和不及物变体的衍生策略。其次，我关注于反过渡语素-ik，它是这些范式中不及物动词的一种可能标记。最终，我认为这种语素是中音的标记，这种形式出现的各种读物可以归纳为一个参数抑制操作。最后，我讨论了自反和-ik缺乏自反阅读的问题，方法是认为该阅读被词汇自反或自反前缀i-阻止。