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Voice and Grammatical Relations
In Honor of Masayoshi Shibatani
This volume presents thirteen original papers dealing with various aspects of two related areas of research of major concern to linguists of all theoretical persuasions: voice and grammatical relations. The papers are written from typological, functional, and cognitive perspectives, and contain a number of general studies as well as studies focusing on specific issues, and offer a wealth of data from a broad range of languages. The volume provides up-to-date discussions of an array of issues of theoretical concern, including the nature of grammatical relations, voice in agent/patient systems, the expression vs. non-expression of participant roles, and personal vs. impersonal passives. The papers in the volume demonstrate that investigations into the nature of voice and grammatical relations can still yield fresh theoretical and typological insights.
[Typological Studies in Language, 65] 2006. xviii, 342 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. ix–x
- Preface | pp. xi–xiii
- Selected bibliography of Masayoshi Shibatani | pp. xv–xviii
- The Hawaiian passive/imperative particleKenneth William Cook | pp. 1–14
- Indiscrete grammatical relations: The Lunda passiveT. Givón and Boniface Kawasha | pp. 15–41
- Valency sets in KashmiriPeter Edwin Hook and Omkar N. Koul | pp. 43–84
- Property description as a voice phenomenonTaro Kageyama | pp. 85–114
- Dimensions of defocusingRonald W. Langacker | pp. 115–137
- On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identificationRandy J. LaPolla | pp. 139–151
- Participant roles, thematic roles and syntactic relationsChristian Lehmann | pp. 153–174
- Information focus in relational clause structureElena S. Maslova | pp. 175–194
- Voice without subjects, objects, or obliques: Manipulating argument structure in Agent/Patient systems (Mohawk)Marianne Mithun | pp. 195–216
- Chukchi reciprocals (with an appendix on Koryak and Itelmen)Vladimir P. Nedjalkov | pp. 217–246
- The regular and the extended comitative reciprocal construction, illustrated from GermanFrans Plank | pp. 247–270
- Auxiliation of ‘give’ verbs in Russian: Discourse evidence for grammaticalizationVera I. Podlesskaya | pp. 271–298
- Reflexive and middle constructions of Warrungu (Australia)Tasaku Tsunoda | pp. 299–333
- Language index | pp. 335–336
- Name index | pp. 337–338
- Subject index | pp. 339–342
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Padovan, Andrea
2016. Why a bed can be slept in but not under. In Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 234], ► pp. 119 ff.
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