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Subject: Impersonal Constructions: Malchukov, Siewierska (Eds)
 

	
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Title: Impersonal Constructions 
Subtitle: A cross-linguistic perspective 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 124  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.124 


Editor: Andrej Malchukov
Editor: Anna Siewierska

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027287168 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027287168 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
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Abstract:

This volume offers a much needed typological perspective on impersonal 
constructions, which are here viewed broadly as constructions lacking a 
referential subject. The contributions to this volume deal with all types of 
impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including 
those with experiential predicates (A-impersonals), presentational 
constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality (T-impersonals), 
and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties (R-
impersonals), i.e. both meteo-constructions and man-constructions. The 
typological discussion benefits from a good coverage of impersonality in 
European languages, but also includes considerations of several African, 
American, South-East Asian, Australian, and Oceanic languages. The 
variation in the cross-linguistic realization of impersonality and the diachronic 
pathways leading to and from impersonality documented in this volume point 
to a novel perspective on impersonals as transitional structures or an 
intermediate stage of a more basic diachronic change be it from transitive to 
intransitive, or from active to passive, or participant-to event-centered 
construction. 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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