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Demoting the Agent

Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2006

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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.

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    Prelim pages

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    Table of contents

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    List of contributors

    vii
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    Preface

    ix
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    Perspectives on demotion

    1
    Torgrim Solstad and Benjamin Lyngfelt
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    Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives

    21
    Elisabet Engdahl
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    The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions

    47
    Andrey Filchenko
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    Agent back-grounding as a functional domain

    83
    Mirjam Fried
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    Invisible arguments

    111
    Elsi Kaiser and Virve-Anneli Vihman
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    Argument demotion as feature suppression

    143
    Dalina Kallulli
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    A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles

    167
    Marika Lekakou
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    From passive to active

    197
    Joan Maling
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    The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive

    225
    Anneliese Pitz
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    Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance

    249
    Eva-Maria Remberger
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    Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction

    275
    Nola M. Stephens
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    Arguments in middles

    301
    Thomas Stroik
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    Language index

    327
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    Name index

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    Subject index

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This book is in the series
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.96
eBook ISBN: 9789027293077
Keywords for this book
Syntax; Semantics; Generative linguistics; Theoretical linguistics; Functional linguistics
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Professional and scholarly;
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