In:Demoting the Agent: Passive, middle and other voice phenomena
Edited by Benjamin Lyngfelt and Torgrim Solstad
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 96] 2006
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 6 December 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.96.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Perspectives on demotion: Introduction to the volume
Semantic and syntactic patterns in Swedish passives
The Eastern Khanty locative-agent constructions: A functional discourse-pragmatic perspective
Agent back-grounding as a functional domain: Reflexivization and passivization in Czech and Russian
Invisible arguments: Effects of demotion in Estonian and Finnish
Argument demotion as feature suppression
A comparative view of the requirement for adverbial modification in middles
From passive to active: Syntactic change in progress in Icelandic
The relation between information structure, syntactic structure and passive
Syntax and semantics of the deontic WANT-passive in Italo-Romance
Agentivity and the virtual reflexive construction
Arguments in middles
Language index327
Name index
Subject index
