Demoting the agent : passive, middle and other voice phenomena
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Demoting the agent : passive, middle and other voice phenomena
（Linguistik aktuell, v. 96）
John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2006
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- Perspectives on demotion : introduction to the volume / Torgrim Solstad and Benjamin Lyngfelt
- Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives / Elisabet Engdahl
- The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions : a functional discourse-pragmatic perspective / Andrey Filtchenko
- Agent back-grounding as a functional domain : reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian / Mirjam Fried
- Invisible arguments : effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish / Elsi Kaiser and Virve-Anneli Vihman
- Argument demotion as feature suppression / Dalina Kallulli
- A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles / Marika Lekakou
- From passive to active : syntactic change in progress in Icelandic / Joan Maling
- The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive / Anneliese Pitz
- Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance / Eva-Maria Remberger
- Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction / Nola M. Stephens
- Arguments in middles / Thomas Stroik
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion, offering new data, new analyses, and bringing new light to long-standing issues. In combination, they present a multi-faceted and yet coherent picture of the topics at hand.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of contributors
- 2. Preface
- 3. Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volume (by Solstad, Torgrim)
- 4. Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives (by Engdahl, Elisabet)
- 5. The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspective (by Filtchenko, Andrey)
- 6. Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian (by Fried, Mirjam)
- 7. Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish (by Kaiser, Elsi)
- 8. Argument demotion as feature suppression (by Kallulli, Dalina)
- 9. A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles (by Lekakou, Marika)
- 10. From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic (by Maling, Joan)
- 11. The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive (by Pitz, Anneliese)
- 12. Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance (by Remberger, Eva-Maria)
- 13. Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction (by Stephens, Nola M.)
- 14. Arguments in middles (by Stroik, Thomas)
- 15. Language index
- 16. Name index
- 17. Subject index
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