Voice: voice
We use Voice for verbs and auxiliaries with two values, Act and Cau.
Act: active voice
The subject of the verb is the doer of the action (agent), the object is affected by the action (patient).
Examples
- [hu] mos “wash”
Cau: causative voice
Causative forms of verbs are classified as a voice category because, when compared to the basic active form, they change the number of participants and their mapping on semantic roles. (See, e.g., the documentation of the METU Sabanci treebank (page 26).)
Examples
- [hu] mosat “make somebody wash”
Voice in other languages: [abq] [am] [arr] [bej] [bg] [ceb] [cs] [el] [eme] [en] [fi] [fr] [gn] [gub] [hu] [hy] [jaa] [ka] [ky] [myu] [qpm] [qtd] [quc] [ru] [sv] [tl] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj] [xcl]