31.1801, Books: Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian: Fábregas, Putnam

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Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 16:31:13
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian: Fábregas, Putnam

 


Title: Passives and Middles in Mainland Scandinavian 
Subtitle: Microvariation Through Exponency 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 338  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/36zdeeY 


Author: Antonio Fábregas
Author: Michael T. Putnam

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110633719 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

This monograph explores the properties of passive and middle voice
constructions in Norwegian and Swedish, concentrating on the linguistic
variation related to these two constructions in Mainland Scandinavian. At an
empirical level, we provide a detailed discussion of the morphosyntax and
semantics of the two main types of passives in both languages, lexical (s-)
and periphrasitic (bli-) passives. At a theoretical level, we propose an
architecture of the language faculty where exponents play a central role.
Exponents are selected to identify the structures generated by the grammar and
provide a platform that make these units interpretable by the sensori-motor
and conceptual-intentional interfaces. Exponents this play an essential role
in determining the well-formedness of linguistic structures. We demonstrate
how different syntactic structures identified and lexicalized by exponents in
these two languages are capable of capturing the microvariation observed in
the voice systems of these two languages in a straightforward way. The amount
of linguistic information (i.e., aspect and mood) identified by each exponent
in each language determines the types of complements and specifiers that can
be integrated into and lexicalized by a given exponent. Although our approach
shares certain affinities with other neo-constructionist approaches, a novel
proposal we advance in this book is that exponents are housed in an
intermediate level of structure that exists between the narrow syntax and its
external interfaces. This exponency-level (Ʃ-structure) allows for a more
parsimonious theoretical analysis that does not sacrifice descriptive
adequacy.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                     Swedish (swe)


Written In: English  (eng)

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