Larisa Leisiö
List of John Benjamins publications in which Larisa Leisiö is
involved.
Title
Passivization and Typology: Form and function
Edited by Werner Abraham and Larisa Leisiö
Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other… read moreArticle
Leisiö, Larisa 2006
Passive in Nganasan Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 213–230 | Article In this paper, the passive constructions in Nganasan will be discussed froma semanticfunctional point of view. Nganasan (also called Tavgi and Tavgi-Samoyed) is one of the Northern Samoyed languages belonging to the Uralic language family. Nganasan is an essentially agglutinative accusative SOV… read more 