Demoting the Agent

Passive, middle and other voice phenomena

Editors

Benjamin Lyngfelt

| Göteborg University

Torgrim Solstad

| University of Oslo

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ISBN 9789027233608 | EUR 125.00 | USD 188.00

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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.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 96] 2006. x, 333 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.96

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii–viii
Preface	ix–x
Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volume Torgrim Solstad and Benjamin Lyngfelt	1–20
Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives Elisabet Engdahl	21–45
The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspective Andrey Filchenko	47–82
Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian Mirjam Fried	83–109
Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish Elsi Kaiser and Virve-Anneli Vihman	111–141
Argument demotion as feature suppression Dalina Kallulli	143–166
A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles Marika Lekakou	167–196
From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic Joan Maling	197–223
The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive Anneliese Pitz	225–248
Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance Eva-Maria Remberger	249–274
Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction Nola M. Stephens	275–300
Arguments in middles Thomas Stroik	301–326
Language index	327
Name index	329–330
Subject index	331–333

Cited by

Cited by 3 other publications

Alexiadou, Artemis & Florian Schäfer

2020. In The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics, ► pp. 461 ff.

Engdahl, Elisabet & Anu Laanemets

2015. Prepositional passives in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: A corpus study. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 38:3 ► pp. 285 ff.

Nau, Nicole & Axel Holvoet

2015. In Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic [Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 2], ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Semantics

Syntax

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2006047803 | Marc record