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Passivization and Typology

Form and function
  • Edited by: Werner Abraham and Larisa Leisiö
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2006
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Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative,perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, Modern Structuralist Approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, Distributed Morphology, and Case Grammar have been applied by the different authors.

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Konstantin Krasukhin, Moskau, in Linguistische Berichte 213, 2008:
Der Band wird linguistisch gut Eingearbeitete und vor allem Typologen ansprechen. Die vertretenen Sprachen ergeben, soweit wie überseebar ist, ein viel vollständigeres Bild zur Passivkonstruktion als in bisher erschienenen Werken zum Thema. Bemerkenswert is auch, dass die Einleitung (aus der hand Abrahams) sich nicht mit der Aufzählung der einzelne Beiträge und ihrer Kurzwiedergabe begnügt, sondern ein sehr weites Spektrum an Beobachtungen und theoretisch dimensionierten Lösungen zum Thema bestreicht – gewiss originell und zu Nachahmung emfehlbar.


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Form vs. function - a confined survey into the research status quo
Werner Abraham
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Active–passive and reflexives

Emma Š. Geniušienė
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Reconstructing the early Vedic passive paradigm
Leonid Kulikov
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Triggers — aspectual, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic: case studies

Marja Peltomaa
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Amara Prasithrathsint
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Brian Nolan
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Merja Salo
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Jun-ichi Toyota and Melisa Mustafović
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Larisa Leisiö
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Actor demotion

Passive and impersonal constructions in some European languages
Andrea Sansó
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Dedicated to Emma Geniusiene
Björn Wiemer
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Grammaticalization in long-term diachrony

Michela Cennamo
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A diachronic perspective
T. Givón
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Argument structure and case

Kan Sasaki and Akie Yamazaki
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Tor A. Åfarli
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Balkız Öztürk
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Kenichi Ariji
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Actor demotion

Dalina Kallulli
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Event semantics — Aspectual and semantic triggers

Syntactic vs. event semantic triggers. "Argument Hypothesis" vs. "Aspect Hypothesis"
Werner Abraham
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voice suspended under aspectual conditions
Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss
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The role of the adjectival passive
Monika Rathert
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