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Passivization and Typology
Form and function
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Edited by:
Werner Abraham
and Larisa Leisiö
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English
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2006
About this book
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.
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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Prelim pages
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Table of contents
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Contributor's addresses
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Abbreviations
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Introduction: Passivization and typology
1 - Active–passive and reflexives
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Passives in Lithuanian (in comparison with Russian)
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Passive and middle in Indo-European
62 - Triggers — aspectual, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic: case studies
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Pragmatic nature of Mandarin passive-like constructions
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Development of thùuk passive marker in Thai
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The passives of Modern Irish
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The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore
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Grammatical voice and tense-aspect in Slavic
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Passive in Nganasan
213 - Actor demotion
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'Agent defocusing' revisited
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Relations between Actor-demoting devices in Lithuanian
274 - Grammaticalization in long-term diachrony
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The rise and grammaticalization paths of Latin fieri and facere as passive auxiliaries
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Grammatical relations in passive clauses
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Two types of detransitive constructions in the dialects of Japanese
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Passive and argument structure
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Case-driven agree, EPP, and passive in Turkish
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A unique feature of the direct passive in Japanese
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Passive as a feature-suppression operation
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The compositional nature of the passive
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The impersonal passive
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Simple preterit and composite perfect tense
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Author index
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Subject index
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