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Figure from:Cross-linguistic sources of anticausative markers

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being associated with the voiced variants. Sino-Tibetan languages offer a case in point. As shown in Table 2, in languages — Table 2 being associated with the voiced variants. Sino-Tibetan languages offer a case in point. As shown in Table 2, in languages

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and non-reflexive voice markers (plus a seventh group for unknown sources). In the

Figure 1: The origin of AMs Polis (2018). A semantic map of anticausativization has been proposed by Haspelmath (1987: 35).

Table 3: Sources of AMs and types of alternation \t any rate, the data from my sample, shown in Table 3, only partially supports th dea that the nature of the source construction determines the preference for on yattern over the other.” For example, as expected voice markers seem to preferabl ive rise to anticausative patterns and so do verbalizers and nominalizers. For th ther source types no clear pattern can be detected, even if one considers the mor ine-grained etymology of lexical verb sources, in part because the numbers are s mall that they do not allow compelling generalizations. Nevertheless, the fact the here appears to be a weak link between type of sources and types of patterns furthe upports to the idea that markers that occur in the two patterns are not different i lature (see Section 4.1).

The sample used in this study derives from the combination of various existing samples of AMs and voice markers more generally (Nichols et al. 2004; Hartmann et al. 2013; Muysken et al. 2016; Bahrt 2021; Inglese 2022a) to which I have also added language from other sources. Language names and genealogical classification are taken from Glottolog, consulted on 30/08/2022.

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