Jasanoff, Jay H.Grestenberger, Laura2014-06-072014-06-062014Grestenberger, Laura. 2014. Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11567http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274624This thesis investigates "voice mismatch verbs" (deponents), verbs that take non-active morphology but are used in syntactically active environments. The focus is on the non-informant Indo-European languages Hittite, Vedic Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and Latin, supplemented by data from Modern Greek.en-USLinguisticsDeponentsIndo-EuropeanMiddle voiceMorphosyntaxNon-active morphologyVoice systemsThesis or Dissertation2016-06-04