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The Middle Voice.
This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book approaches the middle voice from the perspective of typology and language universals research. The principal aim is to provide a typologically valid characterization of the category of middle voice in terms of which it can be incorporated in a cognitively-based theory of human language. The term "middle voice" has had a wide range of applications in the linguistic literature of this century. The main thesis in this volume is that there is a coherent, though complex, semantic category of middle voice in human language, which receives grammatical instantiation in many languages. The au. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (311 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-286) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276865 9027276862 1283312913 9781283312912 9786613312914 6613312916 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |