Voice and Grammatical Relations

In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani

Editors

Tasaku Tsunoda

| University of Tokyo

Taro Kageyama

| Kwansei Gakuin University

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This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a number of general studies as well as studies focusing on specific issues, and offer a wealth of data from a broad range of languages. The volume provides up-to-date discussions of an array of issues of theoretical concern, including the nature of grammatical relations, voice in agent/patient systems, the expression vs. non-expression of participant roles, and personal vs. impersonal passives. The papers in the volume demonstrate that investigations into the nature of voice and grammatical relations can still yield fresh theoretical and typological insights.

[Typological Studies in Language, 65] 2006. xviii, 342 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.65

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix–x
Preface	xi–xiii
Selected bibliography of Masayoshi Shibatani	xv–xviii
The Hawaiian passive/imperative particle Kenneth William Cook	1–14
Indiscrete grammatical relations: The Lunda passive T. Givón and Boniface Kawasha	15–41
Valency sets in Kashmiri Peter Edwin Hook and Omkar N. Koul	43–84
Property description as a voice phenomenon Taro Kageyama	85–114
Dimensions of defocusing Ronald W. Langacker	115–137
On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification Randy J. LaPolla	139–151
Participant roles, thematic roles and syntactic relations Christian Lehmann	153–174
Information focus in relational clause structure Elena S. Maslova	175–194
Voice without subjects, objects, or obliques: Manipulating argument structure in Agent/Patient systems (Mohawk) Marianne Mithun	195–216
Chukchi reciprocals (with an appendix on Koryak and Itelmen) Vladimir P. Nedjalkov	217–246
The regular and the extended comitative reciprocal construction, illustrated from German Frans Plank	247–270
Auxiliation of ‘give’ verbs in Russian: Discourse evidence for grammaticalization Vera I. Podlesskaya	271–298
Reflexive and middle constructions of Warrungu (Australia) Tasaku Tsunoda	299–333
Language index	335–336
Name index	337–338
Subject index	339–342

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2016. In Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234], ► pp. 119 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Typology

Theoretical linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005055572