Baerman, Matthew, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown & Andrew Hippisley. 2006. Surrey Typological Database on Deponency. University of Surrey. http://dx.doi.org/10.15126/SMG.15/1
http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/deponency/typological
The term 'deponency' describes a mismatch between morphology and morphosyntax. The prototypical example is the deponent verbs of Latin, which involve a mismatch between passive form and active meaning. That is, a normal Latin verb had active forms such as amō 'I love' and amāvī 'I have loved', which contrasted with the passive forms amor 'I am loved' and amātus sum 'I have been loved' (in this case, with a masculine subject). A deponent verb, on the other hand, looks like the passive but functions like the active, as in mīror 'I admire', mīrātus sum 'I have admired'.
The Surrey Typological Database on Deponency encodes information on deponency in 41 genetically and geographically diverse languages. The database records the logical space of deponency, including which features may be affected, and the characteristics of the resulting paradigm. Within the database, deponency is construed in an extended fashion, covering any mismatch between the apparent morphosyntactic value of a morphological form and its actual value in a given syntactic context. Every logical combination of parameters is represented by one exemplar (or where none has been found, this is noted too).
The database was created for the project 'Extended Deponency: The right morphology in the wrong place', funded by the Economic and Social Research Council under grant number RES000230375. This support is gratefully acknowledged.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15126/SMG.15/1
Creators: Baerman, Matthew; Corbett, Greville G.; Brown; Dunstan; Hippisley; Andrew;
Title: Surrey Typological Database on Deponency
Publisher: University of Surrey
Year: 2006