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Demoting the Agent
Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
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Main description:Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice - different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion, offering new data, new analyses, and bringing new light to long-standing issues. In combination, they present a multi-faceted and yet coherent picture of the topics at hand.Table of contents:- List of contributors- Preface- Perspectives on demoti...
Main description:
Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice - different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion, offering new data, new analyses, and bringing new light to long-standing issues. In combination, they present a multi-faceted and yet coherent picture of the topics at hand.
Table of contents:
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Perspectives on demotion
- Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives
- The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions
- Agent back-grounding as a functional domain
- Invisible arguments
- Argument demotion as feature suppression
- A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles
- From passive to active
- The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive
- Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance
- Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction
- Arguments in middles
- Language index
- Name index
- Subject index
Passives, middles, and other voice phenomena are issues at the core of modern linguistic research. This volume brings together different perspectives on voice - different theoretical viewpoints, different languages, and different kinds of voice phenomena. The eleven articles each make a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion, offering new data, new analyses, and bringing new light to long-standing issues. In combination, they present a multi-faceted and yet coherent picture of the topics at hand.
Table of contents:
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Perspectives on demotion
- Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives
- The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions
- Agent back-grounding as a functional domain
- Invisible arguments
- Argument demotion as feature suppression
- A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles
- From passive to active
- The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive
- Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance
- Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction
- Arguments in middles
- Language index
- Name index
- Subject index