Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributor's addresses vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Passivization and typology 1
6. Active–passive and reflexives
7. Passives in Lithuanian (in comparison with Russian) 29
8. Passive and middle in Indo-European 62
9. Triggers — aspectual, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic: case studies
10. Pragmatic nature of Mandarin passive-like constructions 83
11. Development of thùuk passive marker in Thai 115
12. The passives of Modern Irish 132
13. The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore 165
14. Grammatical voice and tense-aspect in Slavic 191
15. Passive in Nganasan 213
16. Actor demotion
17. 'Agent defocusing' revisited 232
18. Relations between Actor-demoting devices in Lithuanian 274
19. Grammaticalization in long-term diachrony
20. The rise and grammaticalization paths of Latin fieri and facere as passive auxiliaries 311
21. Grammatical relations in passive clauses 337
22. Argument structure and case
23. Two types of detransitive constructions in the dialects of Japanese 352
24. Passive and argument structure 373
25. Case-driven agree, EPP, and passive in Turkish 383
26. A unique feature of the direct passive in Japanese 403
27. Actor demotion
28. Passive as a feature-suppression operation 442
29. Event semantics — Aspectual and semantic triggers
30. The compositional nature of the passive 462
31. The impersonal passive 502
32. Simple preterit and composite perfect tense 518
33. Author index 544
34. Subject index 548