Demoting the Agent

Passive, middle and other voice phenomena

Editors

Benjamin Lyngfelt | Göteborg University

Torgrim Solstad | University of Oslo

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.96

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Preface | pp. ix–x

Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volume

Torgrim Solstad and Benjamin Lyngfelt | pp. 1–20

Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives

Elisabet Engdahl | pp. 21–45

The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspective

Andrey Filchenko | pp. 47–82

Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian

Mirjam Fried | pp. 83–109

Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish

Elsi Kaiser and Virve-Anneli Vihman | pp. 111–141

Argument demotion as feature suppression

Dalina Kallulli | pp. 143–166

A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles

Marika Lekakou | pp. 167–196

From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic

Joan Maling | pp. 197–223

The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive

Anneliese Pitz | pp. 225–248

Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance

Eva-Maria Remberger | pp. 249–274

Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction

Nola M. Stephens | pp. 275–300

Arguments in middles

Thomas Stroik | pp. 301–326

Language index | p. 327

Name index | pp. 329–330

Subject index | pp. 331–333

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