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Date: 17-Oct-2006
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Passivization and Typology: Abraham, Leisiö (Eds) 

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:08:22
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Passivization and Typology: Abraham, Leisiö (Eds) 

Title: Passivization and Typology 
Subtitle: Form and function 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 68  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2068 

Editor: Werner Abraham
Editor: Larisa Leisiö

Hardback: ISBN: 9027229805 Pages: 553 Price: U.S. $ 174.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027229805 Pages: 553 Price: Europe EURO 145.00

Abstract:

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. 

Table of contents

Contributor's addresses  vii-viii  
Abbreviations  ix-x  
Introduction: Passivization and typology: Form vs. function - a confined
survey into the research status quo 
Werner Abraham 1-27  
Active-passive and reflexives   
Passives in Lithuanian (in comparison with Russian) 
Emma ?. Geniu?ien? 29-61  
Passive and middle in Indo-European: Reconstructing the early Vedic passive
paradigm 
Leonid Kulikov 62-81  
Triggers - aspectual, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic: case studies   
Pragmatic nature of Mandarin passive-like constructions 
Marja Peltomaa 83-114  
Development of thùuk passive marker in Thai 
Amara Prasithrathsint 115-131  
The passives of Modern Irish 
Brian Nolan 132-164  
The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore 
Merja Salo 165-190  
Grammatical voice and tense-aspect in Slavic 
Junichi Toyota and Melisa Mustafovi? 191-212  
Passive in Nganasan 
Larisa Leisiö 213-230  
Actor demotion   
'Agent defocusing' revisited: Passive and impersonal constructions in some
European languages 
Andrea Sansò 232-273  
Relations between Actor-demoting devices in Lithuanian: Dedicated to Emma
Geniusiene 
Björn Wiemer 274-309  
Grammaticalization in long-term diachrony   
The rise and grammaticalization paths of Latin fieri and facere as passive
auxiliaries 
Michela Cennamo 311-336  
Grammatical relations in passive clauses: A diachronic perspective 
T. Givón 337-350  
Argument structure and case   
Two types of detransitive constructions in the dialects of Japanese 
Kan Sasaki and Akie Yamazaki 352-372  
Passive and argument structure 
Tor A. Åfarlí 373-382  
Case-driven agree, EPP, and passive in Turkish 
Balk?z Öztürk 383-402  
A unique feature of the direct passive in Japanese 
Kenichi Ariji 403-440  
Actor demotion   
Passive as a feature-suppression operation 
Dalina Kallulli 442-460  
Event semantics - Aspectual and semantic triggers   
The compositional nature of the passive: Syntactic vs. event semantic
triggers. "Argument Hypothesis" vs. "Aspect Hypothesis" 
Werner Abraham 462-501  
The impersonal passive: voice suspended under aspectual conditions 
Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss 502-517  
Simple preterit and composite perfect tense: The role of the adjectival
passive 
Monika Rathert 518-543  
Author index  544-547  
Subject index  548-553 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Gaelic, Irish (gle)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Lithuanian (lit)
                     Erzya (myv)
                     Nganasan (nio)
                     Thai (tha)
                     Turkish (tur)

Written In: English  (eng)

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