In:Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective
Edited by Andrej L. Malchukov and Anna Siewierska
[Studies in Language Companion Series 124] 2011
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I. Impersonal constructions: Typological and theoretical aspects
Towards a typology of impersonal constructions: A semantic map approach
Overlap and complementarity in reference impersonals: Man-constructions vs. third person plural-impersonals in the languages of Europe
Verbs of motion: Impersonal passivization between unaccusativity and unergativity
On the distribution of subject properties in formulaic presentationals of Germanic and Romance: A diachronic-typological approach
Part II. Impersonal constructions: Diachronic studies
Impersonal constructions and accusative subjects in Late Latin
From passive to impersonal: A case study from Italian and its implications
Passive to anticausative through impersonalization: The case of Vedic and Indo-European
Part III. Cross-linguistic variation in Impersonal constructions: Case studies
The Maa (Eastern Nilotic) Impersonal construction
Impersonal constructions in Jóola-Banjal
Impersonal configurations and theticity: The case of meteorological predications in Afroasiatic
Revisiting impersonal constructions in Modern Hebrew: Discourse-based perspectives
The elephant in the room: The impersonal -ne/-te construction in Polish
Meteorological verbs in Uralic languages – are there any impersonal structures to be found
Impersonal constructions in Ket
Impersonal verbs in Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimoan)
Impersonals in Innu
A diachronic study of the impersonal passive in Ainu
Referential impersonal constructions in Mandarin
Impersonal constructions in some Oceanic languages
Impersonal constructions in Umpithamu and the Lamalamic languages
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