Middle Voice, Transitivity, and the Elaboration of Events

Kemmer, Suzanne

doi:10.1075/tsl.27.09kem

Part of

Voice: Form and Function
Edited by Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper
[Typological Studies in Language 27] 1994
► pp. 179–230

Middle Voice, Transitivity, and the Elaboration of Events

Suzanne Kemmer

Published online: 6 April 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.27.09kem

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