Adjutative voice
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The adjutative voice is a grammatical voice carrying the meaning "to help to". The subject of a verb in the adjutative voice is not an agent of the action denoted by the verb, but assists the (unstated) agent in performing the action.
Xamtanga language
[edit]For example, in the Xamtanga language, the adjutative voice is formed by total reduplication of the verbal stem, insertion of the linking vowel [-ə], and the suffixation of the causative suffix [-s] to the verbal stems.
"adəruØ guləʃət lɨwəʃən dʒɨβə dʒɨβɨsØu." Aderu helped Guleshe to buy the cow.
References
[edit]- Trask, R. L. (1993). A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08628-0.
- Teshome Belay, 2015, A Grammar of Khimt‘Anga
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