Full Description
The volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provides analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. In addition to the theoretical contributions, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from psycholinguistic perspectives.
Contents
Editorial Foreword
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Akemi Matsuya and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
1 Long-Distance Passives by Structure Removal
Gereon Müller
2 On Passive and Perfect Participles
Peter Hallman
3 On Deontic Passives
Eva-Maria Remberger
4 Indirect Object Want-Passives in Southern Italy
Adam Ledgeway
5 Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan
Isabel Crespí
6 Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and "Low Passives" in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek
Laura Grestenberger
7 Non-active Voices in South Asian Languages
Pritha Chandra, Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo
8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity Alternation
Mohamed Naji
9 Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of Passives
Akemi Matsuya
10 The Source of Passive Sentence Difficulty: Task Effects and Predicate Semantics, Not Argument Order
Caterina L. Paolazzi, Nino Grillo and Andrea Santi
11 Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammar: The View from Greek Reflexive Verbs
Arhonto Terzi
12 The Mirage of "Impaired Passives" and the Locus Preservation Hypothesis
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros and Evelina Leivada
Index
