Full Description
The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to event-structural conditions on passivization, non-canonical passives, and the relation between passives and (active) impersonals. Papers dealing with causatives focus on valency patterns and argument marking in canonical as well as extended uses of causative morphology. Other articles consider converse constructions and the argument structure of middles, which seem to hold a position between voice in the narrow sense and valency-changing operations. An introductory article provides background information on the repertoire of voice alternations in Baltic from a cross-linguistic perspective. Representing different approaches and methods, the contributions to this volume offer fine-grained analyses of data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. Voice in Baltic: An overview (by Nau, Nicole); 3. Part I. Causatives; 4. Lithuanian morphological causatives: A corpus-based study (by Arkadiev, Peter M.); 5. Morphological causatives in contemporary Latvian (by Nau, Nicole); 6. Extended uses of morphological causatives in Latvian (by Holvoet, Axel); 7. Part II. Reflexives and middle voice; 8. Middle voice reflexives and argument structure in Baltic (by Holvoet, Axel); 9. Converse relations with the reflexive marker in Lithuanian and Polish: Between grammar and lexicon (by Wiemer, Bjorn); 10. Part III. Passives; 11. Passivization and argument structure in Lithuanian (by Anderson, Cori); 12. Solving the puzzle of the Lithuanian passive (by Sprauniene, Birute); 13. Latvian passives - personal, impersonal and evidential (by Holvoet, Axel); 14. Language index; 15. Name index; 16. Subject index
