Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Impersonal constructions
6. Towards a typology of impersonal constructions 19
7. Overlap and complementarity in reference impersonals 57
8. Verbs of motion 91
9. On the distribution of subject properties in formulaic presentationals of Germanic and Romance 127
10. Part II. Impersonal constructions
11. Impersonal constructions and accusative subjects in Late Latin 169
12. From passive to impersonal 189
13. Passive to anticausative through impersonalization 229
14. Part III. Cross-linguistic variation in Impersonal constructions
15. The Maa (Eastern Nilotic) Impersonal construction 257
16. Impersonal constructions in Jóola-Banjal 285
17. Impersonal configurations and theticity 307
18. Revisiting impersonal constructions in Modern Hebrew 323
19. The elephant in the room 357
20. Meteorological verbs in Uralic languages – are there any impersonal structures to be found 395
21. Impersonal constructions in Ket 439
22. Impersonal verbs in Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimoan) 459
23. Impersonals in Innu 489
24. A diachronic study of the impersonal passive in Ainu 517
25. Referential impersonal constructions in Mandarin 547
26. Impersonal constructions in some Oceanic languages 581
27. Impersonal constructions in Umpithamu and the Lamalamic languages 607
28. Author index 627
29. Language index 633
30. Language index 637