Figure 1 summarizes the idea that middle and ergative verbs are distinct categories as below: (1984) categorize ergative verbs as intransitive, while middle verbs are categorized as transitive. Another difference between Thongteang’s Thai patient-subject construction and t issive construction is that animate or inanimate NPs can be the subject of passive as showr in (22). In contrast, only inanimate NPs tend to occur in the patient-subject construction, as shown yperties of the patient NPs. He represents the schematic structure of patient-subject Based on (24a-f), the initial subjects have to be definite i.e. a proper noun or commor claims that the patient-subject construction derives an intransitive verb from the original transitive Pothipath mentions that Thepkanjana (1986)’s analysis does not cover the causative victory finally.” “The government announcing that 12-15" April is an annual official holiday The suffix -idw syntactically affects the arguments of a verb because the sentence pattern verb stem with passive morphology. The subject mayr “mother” in (56a) is the subject and agent of the verb /van “wash” ar kind of operation is the causative. The causative or agent-adding operation is an event-changing shown in (81a), and the variation of the order does not affect the meaning of the sentence. does not agree with [i/ fou libro],p, but rather agrees with the subject jo “I”. contrast, [i! tou libro],p “your book” in (80) is the topic of the sentence, the auxiliary verb ho “have” have the morpheme -das which is the plural feminine agreement morpheme in Spanish. The gender of Las casas “the house” in (79) is feminine, thus the verb vendi “sell” must Rizzi (1997) proposes that Topic and Focus are in the different projection. He situates what type of the sentence is: question, command, dative, etc. The next projection is the topic Table 4 The differences of Topic and Focus not have the stress and cannot be quantificational element. On the other hand, Focus has FocP complement is a daughter to X’, and sister to the head. Using the model in (98), we can draw a as below: Now we can make the diagram of SIINPs in Thai in figure 11. grammatical. Thus, with woods is the adjunct of the sentence. block is the argument of the sentence. In contrast, if with woods is omitted, the sentence is stil In diagnostic 5, | will test constructions with progressive construction, and adverbial c Diagnostics 5: adverbial test while | add the agent in the passive construction (12b), the sentence is still grammatical. Thus In (12a), | add the agent ndonc' aaj “brother” in the sentence and the sentence is strange but subject of a middle construction, and two they can be the topic of the sentence. In this chapter In this section, | will demonstrate my hypothesis for the middle construction which consists In chapter 1, | proposed that SIINPs in Thai have two statuses. One, they can be the Table 5 Empirical differences between Thai middles and passives Keyser and Roeper (1984) observed that middles require an adverbial. The Thai examples in (1) and (3), like middles cross-linguistically, are unacceptable without adverbials, as This suggests that the sentences (1) and (3) are not covert passive constructions as Sinlapasan and Thonglor proposed. | have proposed that they have the structural and semantic Table 6 Empirical difference between Thai middles and passives (adverbial requirements) semantics, expressing sentences that are generally true, as opposed to describing particular The data below provides further evidence for this semantic distinction; the proposec Table 7 Semantic properties of subject between Thai middles and passives niddle constructions in (12) are unacceptable with a particular time adverbial like mfa waan nii yesterday”, unlike passive constructions, as shown in (13). The example (10) and (11) suggest that the middle subject has generic semantics while We also can test for a generic meaning using an additional diagnostic - the Whether or not the middle operation decreases the number of arguments depends on the definition of “argument” adopted. If only NPs account “ Whether or not the middle operation decreases the number of arguments depends on the definition of “argument” adopted. If only NPs account as arguments then it decreases the number of argument. If the manner adverbial is also accounted as an argument, then the total number of arguments remaine the cama First | will use the conjunction test to show that the SIINP and verb do not form « ‘The product set ‘Forget me not’ sells well and find easily.” | will also show that the [SIINP V] do not pass the movement test as shown in (27). Since the middle subject can be topicalized which is marked by the topic marker nii (I will discus the SIINP is a specifier of VP which | will assume is the subject position. Second, in both (i) an “The product set “Forget me not” sells really well.” osition is filled by the SIINPy4eme and the higher Spec position is filled by a null generic operator both topics are represented below: ?-Adjunct topics. | will discuss this in more detail in the following sections. The structures o1 “this” while the topics in (39b-c) and (40a-b) do not occur with topic markers. | divide topics into CP-Adjunct is, the topic which is in Spec-TopP allow only one topic, while you may have multiple topicalized topics, (44) for unmarked base-generated topics. We have seen the structure of unmarked topics, | will present marked topics in the next base-generated topic constructions. This suggests that they are CP-Adjuncts. | present diagrams that contrastive and normal topic can co-occur as shown in (53). the topics have membership relation, we need to order the position correctly. Next, | will show According to (53), this suggests that the contrastive topic markers is in contrastive TopP | will show that these two different types of topic can co-occur. The data in (55) and (56) show diagnostics presented in this section can be summarized by the table below: construction in (61). subject burii is moved from Spec-VP to Spec-TopP to be a topic of the sentence, and marked by the topic marker nii. This agrees with Hoonchamloong (1991) who suggests that either subject However, adjoined topics can merge either at the CP-level or the TopP level. “Yesterday, a mouse/mice came in the kitchen. Today, the mouse/mice disappear.” ° Piriyawiboon (2010:6), she suggests that Thai nominals have vague semantics of number and definition because Thai nominals argume! nuu “mouse/mice” in (a) refers to the kind of mice while, nuu in (b) refers to the general habit of mice. In (c), nuu refers to an indefinite “Plaid (shirt), | wore it often when | was living abroad.” “This brand, | have used 10 bottles continually.” “With 25,000 baht salary, one can get a loan for approximately 1.5 million baht.”
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