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Middle voice in modern Greek : meaning and function of an inflectional category /
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network i...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2000.
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| Collection: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 48. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types, which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts, middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to demonstrate more clearly the. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxi, 276 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298744 9027298742 9781556199349 1556199341 1282162977 9781282162976 |
| ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |