| Description |
1 online resource (x, 333 pages) |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 96 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 96
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| Contents |
Demoting the Agent; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; Perspectives on demotion; Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives; The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions; Agent back-grounding as a functional domain; Invisible arguments; Argument demotion as feature suppression; A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles; From passive to active; The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive; Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Voice.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Voice
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Diathese (taalkunde)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Solstad, Torgrim
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Lyngfelt, Benjamin
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| LC no. |
2006047803 |
| ISBN |
9789027293077 |
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9027293074 |
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9789027233608 |
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9027233608 |
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1282155199 |
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9781282155190 |
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9786612155192 |
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6612155191 |
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