The middle voice

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The middle voice

Suzanne Kemmer

（Typological studies in language, v. 23）

John Benjamins, 1993

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A revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 1988

Bibliography: p. [273]-286

Includes indexes of subjects, names and languages

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内容説明

This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term "middle voice" has had a wide range of applications in the linguistic literature of this century. The main thesis in this volume is that there is a coherent, though complex, semantic category of middle voice in human language, which receives grammatical instantiation in many languages. The author claims there is a semantic property crucial to the nature of the middle, which she terms "relative elaboration of events", that serves as a parameter along which the reflexive and the middle can be situated as semantic categories intermediate in transitivity between one-participant and two-participant events, and which differentiates reflexive and middle from one another. In this area, most analyses deal with one language and/or are limited to Indo-European languages. This work deals with a subset of middle-marking languages that was chosen so as to observe the highest possible number of different middle systems showing significant independent diachronic development.

目次

  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Middle Voice Systems
  • 4. Reflexive and Associated Middle Situation Types
  • 5. Related Semantic Domains
  • 6. Diachronic Developments
  • 7. Hypotheses and Predictions
  • 8. Notes
  • 9. Appendix A: A checklist for Middle Semantics
  • 10. Data Sources
  • 11. Bibliography
  • 12. Index of Subjects
  • 13. Index of Names
  • 14. Index of Languages

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