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From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Demoting the Agent: Lyngfelt, Solstad (Eds) 

	
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Title: Demoting the Agent 
Subtitle: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 96  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%2096 


Editor: Benjamin Lyngfelt
Editor: Torgrim Solstad

Hardback: ISBN: 9789027233608 Pages: 333 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027233608 Pages: 333 Price: U.S. $ 150.00


Abstract:

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. 


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 Filtchenko 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 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Czech (ces)
                     Estonian (est)
                     Finnish (fin)
                     Icelandic (isl)
                     Khanty (kca)
                     Russian (rus)
                     Swedish (swe)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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