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Demoting the agent : passive, middle, and other voice phenomena /

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 contr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Solstad, Torgrim, Lyngfelt, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J Benjamins, 2006.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 96.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Demoting the Agent; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; Perspectives on demotion; Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives; The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions; Agent back-grounding as a functional domain; Invisible arguments; Argument demotion as feature suppression; A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles; From passive to active; The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive; Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance.