Demoting the Agent
Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
Editors
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.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 96] 2006. x, 333 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
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Preface | pp. ix–x
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Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volumeTorgrim Solstad and Benjamin Lyngfelt | pp. 1–20
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Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passivesElisabet Engdahl | pp. 21–45
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The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspectiveAndrey Filchenko | pp. 47–82
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Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and RussianMirjam Fried | pp. 83–109
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Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and FinnishElsi Kaiser and Virve-Anneli Vihman | pp. 111–141
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Argument demotion as feature suppressionDalina Kallulli | pp. 143–166
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A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middlesMarika Lekakou | pp. 167–196
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From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in IcelandicJoan Maling | pp. 197–223
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The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passiveAnneliese Pitz | pp. 225–248
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Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-RomanceEva-Maria Remberger | pp. 249–274
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Agentivity and the virtual reflexive constructionNola M. Stephens | pp. 275–300
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Arguments in middlesThomas Stroik | pp. 301–326
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Language index | p. 327
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Name index | pp. 329–330
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Subject index | pp. 331–333
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Cardona, Margrete Dyvik
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Engdahl, Elisabet & Anu Laanemets
2015. Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 38:3 ► pp. 285 ff.
Nau, Nicole & Axel Holvoet
2015. Voice in Baltic. In Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2], ► pp. 1 ff.
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2010. Preface. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xii ff.
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2010. Dating and Other Conventions. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xv ff.
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2010. Abbreviations. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xvii ff.
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2010. Special Phonetic Symbols. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. 288 ff.
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2010. Bibliographical Abbreviations. In Language Change and Linguistic Theory, Volume I, ► pp. xxix ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General