31.2029, Books: The Middle Voice in Baltic: Holvoet

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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:43:27
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Middle Voice in Baltic: Holvoet

 


Title: The Middle Voice in Baltic 
Series Title: Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic 5  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/vargreb.5 


Author: Axel Holvoet

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261083 Pages: 250 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261083 Pages: 250 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261083 Pages: 250 Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205643 Pages: 250 Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205643 Pages: 250 Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205643 Pages: 250 Price: Europe EURO 116.60


Abstract:

The fifth volume in the VARGReB series is a monograph presenting a collection
of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified
family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but
sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on
Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to
Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and
semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of
middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the
workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as
factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and
transitions from one middle-voice gram to another – these are among the topics
discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic
scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Baltic


Written In: English  (eng)

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