The Middle Voice
| University of California, San Diego
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.
[Typological Studies in Language, 23] 1993. xii, 300 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. ix
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Introduction | p. 1
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Middle Voice Systems | p. 15
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Reflexive and Associated Middle Situation Types | p. 41
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Related Semantic Domains | p. 95
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Diachronic Developments | p. 151
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Hypotheses and Predictions | p. 201
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Notes | p. 249
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Appendix A: A checklist for Middle Semantics | p. 267
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Data Sources | p. 271
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Index of Subjects | p. 287
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Index of Names | p. 293
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Index of Languages | p. 297
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