The Middle Voice in Baltic

Author

Axel Holvoet | Vilnius University

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027205643 | EUR 110.00 | USD 165.00

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ISBN 9789027261083 | EUR 110.00 | USD 165.00

The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and transitions from one middle-voice gram to another – these are among the topics discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice.

[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 5] 2020. xvii, 250 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/vargreb.5

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement | pp. xi–xii

List of grammatical abbreviations | pp. xiii–xiv

Preface | pp. xv–xviii

Chapter 1. Reflexives and middles | pp. 1–28

Chapter 2. Metonymy and antimetonymy | pp. 29–50

Chapter 3. Antipassive middles | pp. 51–82

Chapter 4. The permissive middle | pp. 83–114

Chapter 5. The anticausative | pp. 115–148

Chapter 6. Facilitatives | pp. 149–174

Chapter 7. Further extensions from the facilitative middle | pp. 175–202

Chapter 8. The coargumental middle | pp. 203–224

Chapter 9. In conclusion | pp. 225–234

Bibliography | pp. 235–242

Name index | pp. 243–244

Language index | pp. 245–246

Subject index | pp. 247–250

“This book is the first in-depth study of the middle-voice phenomena in Baltic languages since Geniušienė’s seminal “The typology of reflexives” (1987) and builds upon the whole body of theoretical and typological work on voice and related categories that appeared since then. Based on rich empirical data from both contemporary usage as reflected in corpora and historical sources, the book offers a synchronic account of different constructions as well as a number of insights into their diachronic origins, against a broader typological and theoretical background. This is a book to be read by all specialists on reflexives, middles and valency-affecting processes in general, as well as by those interested in grammaticalization paths and historical development of morphosyntactic constructions.”

Peter Arkadiev, Russian Academy & Sciences & Russian State University for the Humanities

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2023. The rise of middle voice systems. Diachronica 40:2 ► pp. 195 ff.

Inglese, Guglielmo

2023. Carlota de Benito Moreno: The middle voice and connected constructions in Ibero-Romance: A variationist and dialectal account . Folia Linguistica 57:3 ► pp. 771 ff.

Inglese, Guglielmo & Andrea Sansò

2023. Introduction: towards a diachronic typology of the middle voice. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 76:2 ► pp. 113 ff.

Inglese, Guglielmo & Jean-Christophe Verstraete

2023. Evidence against unidirectionality in the emergence of middle voice systems. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 76:2 ► pp. 235 ff.

Pronk, Tijmen

2022. Balto-Slavic. In The Indo-European Language Family, ► pp. 269 ff.

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