基本説明
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.
Full 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.
Contents
1. List of contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volume (by Solstad, Torgrim); 4. Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives (by Engdahl, Elisabet); 5. The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspective (by Filtchenko, Andrey); 6. Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian (by Fried, Mirjam); 7. Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish (by Kaiser, Elsi); 8. Argument demotion as feature suppression (by Kallulli, Dalina); 9. A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles (by Lekakou, Marika); 10. From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic (by Maling, Joan); 11. The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive (by Pitz, Anneliese); 12. Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance (by Remberger, Eva-Maria); 13. Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction (by Stephens, Nola M.); 14. Arguments in middles (by Stroik, Thomas); 15. Language index; 16. Name index; 17. Subject index
