In:Passivization and Typology: Form and function
Edited by Werner Abraham and Larisa Leisiö
[Typological Studies in Language 68] 2006
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 20 September 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.68.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.68.toc
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Introduction: Passivization and typology: Form vs. function - a confined survey into the research status quo
Active–passive and reflexives
Passives in Lithuanian (in comparison with Russian)
Passive and middle in Indo-European: Reconstructing the early Vedic passive paradigm
Triggers — aspectual, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic: case studies
Pragmatic nature of Mandarin passive-like constructions
Development of thùuk passive marker in Thai
The passives of Modern Irish
The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore
Grammatical voice and tense-aspect in Slavic
Passive in Nganasan
Actor demotion
'Agent defocusing' revisited: Passive and impersonal constructions in some European languages
Relations between Actor-demoting devices in Lithuanian: Dedicated to Emma Geniusiene
Grammaticalization in long-term diachrony
The rise and grammaticalization paths of Latin fieri and facere as passive auxiliaries
Grammatical relations in passive clauses: A diachronic perspective
Argument structure and case
Two types of detransitive constructions in the dialects of Japanese
Passive and argument structure
Case-driven agree, EPP, and passive in Turkish
A unique feature of the direct passive in Japanese
Actor demotion
Passive as a feature-suppression operation
Event semantics — Aspectual and semantic triggers
The compositional nature of the passive: Syntactic vs. event semantic triggers. "Argument Hypothesis" vs. "Aspect Hypothesis"
The impersonal passive: voice suspended under aspectual conditions
Simple preterit and composite perfect tense: The role of the adjectival passive
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