Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Perspectives on demotion 1
6. Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives 21
7. The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions 47
8. Agent back-grounding as a functional domain 83
9. Invisible arguments 111
10. Argument demotion as feature suppression 143
11. A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles 167
12. From passive to active 197
13. The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive 225
14. Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance 249
15. Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction 275
16. Arguments in middles 301
17. Language index 327
18. Name index 329
19. Subject index 331