Symmetrical Voice in Belait: Evidence for the Central Borneo-type Voice System

<p dir="ltr">This paper is part of the proceedings from the 15th Newcastle and Northumbria Postgraduate Conference in Language and Linguistics, held at Northumbria University in April 2024. The conference was jointly organised by PhD and MA students from both Northumbria University and Newcastle University. More information about the conference can be found <a href="https://northumbriaenglish.org/exploring-linguistic-frontiers-the-15th-nnpcill-conference-2024/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p dir="ltr">The work was presented and authored by <b>Holly Drayton. </b>She is currently pursuing a PhD in Linguistics at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of Symmetrical Voice alternations in the Lower Baram languages spoken in north Borneo. She is carrying out fieldwork in Malaysia and Brunei, where she is also working with communities to document three endangered Lower Baram language varieties: Belait, Tutong and Miriek.</p>