M.H. Klaiman
List of John Benjamins publications in which M.H. Klaiman is involved.
1993 The Relationship of Inverse Voice and Head-Marking in Arizona Tewa and Other Tanoan Languages Studies in Language 17:2, pp. 343–370 | Article
The term 'inverse' has traditionally referred to voice systems characterized by alternations of verbal voice marking, alternations that depend on the relative ontologicai salience of the two core arguments of a transitive animate verb, the logical subject and logical object. In typical inverse… read more
1992 Middle Verbs, Reflexive Middle Constructions, and Middle Voice Studies in Language 16:1, pp. 35–61 | Article
1988 Affectedness and control: a typology of voice systems Passive and Voice, Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.), pp. 25–84 | Article
1987 Aktionsart, Semantics, and Function in the Japanese "Passive" Studies in Language 11:2, pp. 401–434 | Article
The Japanese "passive" construction with the verb stem formant -(r)are-has dual semantic functions. In some uses it indicates that the action's effects impinge emotively and/or psychologically on the subject, while in other uses the special effective nuance is absent. This distinction of semantic… read more