Demoting the Agent

Passive, middle and other voice phenomena

Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt and Torgrim Solstad
Göteborg University / University of Oslo
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 contribution to the ongoing discussion, offering new data, new analyses, and bringing new light to long-standing issues. In combination, they present a multi-faceted and yet coherent picture of the topics at hand.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 96]  2006.  x, 333 pp.
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Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii–viii
Preface
ix–x
Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volume
Torgrim Solstad and Benjamin Lyngfelt
1–20
Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives
Elisabet Engdahl
21–45
The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspective
Andrey Filtchenko
47–82
Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian
Mirjam Fried
83–109
Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish
Elsi Kaiser and Virve-Anneli Vihman
111–141
Argument demotion as feature suppression
Dalina Kallulli
143–166
A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles
Marika Lekakou
167–196
From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic
Joan Maling
197–223
The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive
Anneliese Pitz
225–248
Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance
Eva-Maria Remberger
249–274
Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction
Nola M. Stephens
275–300
Arguments in middles
Thomas Stroik
301–326
Language index
327
Name index
329–330
Subject index
331–333

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

Linguistics

BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2006047803
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