33.3226, Books: The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance: de Benito Moreno

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:25:00
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance: de Benito Moreno

 


Title: The Middle Voice and Connected Constructions in Ibero-Romance 
Subtitle: A variationist and dialectal account 
Series Title: Studies in Language Variation   29  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/silv.29 


Author: Carlota de Benito Moreno

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257581 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257581 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257581 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211422 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211422 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211422 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

The reflexive constructions that are the focus of this book are the
constructions broadly described with the term “middle”: i.e., those that can
appear in all persons, and in which the reflexive marker (RM) cannot be
understood as a full referential pronoun. One goal of this study is to provide
a corpus-based typology of middle and related uses that allow us to compare
the behaviour of the RM in these constructions with previous typological
accounts, where competing models (based either on changes of diathesis or on
the semantics of the verbal event) can be found. A second goal is to shed
light on the evolution of the different functions of the RM, by exploring the
factors that affect its productivity, with a specific focus on those verbs
where reflexive marking is most variable, that is, anticausative verbs and
verbs with no change of valency. These reflexive constructions show a notable
difference in productivity in Spanish and Galician, although the languages are
closely related and contiguous. The languages are thus good candidates for a
contrastive and variationist analysis serving these two goals. The semantic
class of the predicate, its aspectual properties and the animacy of the
subject are some of the most relevant factors that are taken into account to
understand the motivations behind the presence or absence of the RM. By
relying on a corpus of interviews from rural communities across peninsular
Spain (except Catalonia), space as a relevant extra-linguistic variable is
taken into account, helping uncover previously unknown geographical patterns.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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