The Middle Voice in Baltic
Axel Holvoet
[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 5] 2020. xvii, 250 pp.
Axel Holvoet
List of John Benjamins publications for which Axel Holvoet plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Argument Realization in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3] 2016. vii, 560 pp.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2] 2015. vii, 402 pp.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Morphology | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic
Edited by Axel Holvoet and Nicole Nau
[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 1] 2014. vii, 370 pp.
Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 A hitherto unnoticed type of verb-framed construction in Lithuanian and the typology of event conflation Studies in Language 47:3, pp. 571–598 | Article
The article starts out from a Lithuanian construction denoting achievement of an excessive value of some parameter of an incremental event. It is verb-framed, that is, the main-clause verb denotes motion along a path towards a normative value of the parameter involved. Its implications for our… read more
2020 The dual nature of irrealis in complementation Studies in Language 44:1, pp. 165–190 | Article
This article explores the connection between irrealis mood and type of complement clause. It is argued that irrealis performs different functions in propositional and state-of-affairs complements, reflecting either irreality (non-actualisation in a situation that often has a concrete location in… read more
2016 Argument marking in Baltic and Slavonic pain-verb constructions Argument Realization in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 83–106 | Article
Pain verbs are often mentioned in publications on non-canonical marking of grammatical relations. In this article I look at the specific features of pain-verb construction that induce such non-canonical behaviour. Various types of non-canonicity result from marking strategies such as the… read more
2016 Introduction Argument Realization in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Article
2015 Extended uses of morphological causatives in Latvian Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 147–178 | Article
The literature on morphological causatives has tended to concentrate on prototypical causativity, that is, on situations where the argument structure of a predicate is expanded by the addition of a causer. Extended uses of causative morphology, affecting argument structure in various… read more
2015 Latvian passives – personal, impersonal and evidential Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 367–394 | Article
The present article discusses the nature of the Latvian passive and, more specifically, the impersonal passive. It is argued that Latvian has indeed an impersonal passive that shows no signs of turning into an active impersonal, a development that has occurred in the history of Polish and could be… read more
2015 Middle voice reflexives and argument structure in Baltic Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 181–210 | Article
The article deals with Baltic reflexives covering the semantic domain of the middle voice in a narrower sense, that is, the non-anticausative middles as illustrated in constructions like The bread cuts easily. The emphasis is on the Baltic languages, but the data of Slavonic and, to a lesser… read more
2015 Voice in Baltic: An overview Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Article
2014 Non-canonical grammatical relations in a modal construction: The Latvian debitive Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 97–135 | Article
The aim of the paper is to account for the pattern of grammatical relations with the debitive, an inflectional form of the Latvian verb expressing necessity. The authors argue that the debitive construction displays what they call diffuse grammatical relations. They show that neither of the… read more
2014 Argument marking and grammatical relations in Baltic: An overview Grammatical Relations and their Non-Canonical Encoding in Baltic, Holvoet, Axel and Nicole Nau (eds.), pp. 1–41 | Article
2013 Obliqueness, quasi-subjects and transitivity in Baltic and Slavonic The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. 257–282 | Article
The article discusses the subjecthood of datival least-oblique NPs (called ‘subject-like obliques’ in the introduction to this volume) in clauses based on intransitive two-place predicates, mainly with reference to Baltic and Slavonic. The approach in the article crucially invokes the notions of… read more
2010 Mood in Latvian and Lithuanian Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 425–444 | Article
2004 On the Marking of Predicate Nominals in Baltic Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg, Baldi, Philip and Pietro U. Dini (eds.), pp. 75 ff. | Chapter
2001 The Lithuanian language and its dialects Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. xli–lxxix | Chapter
2001 The Latvian language and its dialects Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 1: Past and Present, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. iii–xl | Chapter
2001 Impersonals and passives in Baltic and Finnic Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. 363–389 | Article