Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi

The same categorical phenomena which are attributed to hard grammatical constraintsin some languages continue to show up as statistical preferences in other languages, motivatinga grammatical model that can account for soft constraints.The effects of a hierarchy of person (1st, 2nd 3rd) on grammar are categorical insome languages, most famously in languages with inverse systems, but also in languageswith person restrictions on passivization. In Lummi, for example, the person of the...