Two voices calling out as one: A split voice analysis of Javanese passives

This paper examines the voice system of the Surakarta dialect of Javanese (SkJ) and proposes that both syntactic ergativity and a bundled C/T probe are necessary in interpreting the empirical facts in the language. We present an analysis along these facts, and further propose a decomposed voice structure based on the morphosyntactic realizations of Agents in SkJ voice system, which directly feeds the split ergativity analysis that underpins the extraction restriction observed in SkJ.