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Publication details [#27996]

Manney, Linda. 1993. Pragmatic motivation for inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Functions of Language 2 (2) : 159–188.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
ISBN
0929-998X
Journal DOI
10.1075/fol

Annotation

This book discusses the pragmatic motivation for modern Greek middle voice constructions in selected Greek interview texts as instances of subject enhancement and of agent defocusing.