In:The Middle Voice in Baltic
Axel Holvoet
[Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic 5] 2020
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Published online: 8 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/vargreb.5.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgement
List of grammatical abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1.Reflexives and middles
1.1Introduction
1.2Reflexive and middle
1.3Explaining split reflexivity and reciprocity
1.4Syntax and semantics
1.5Chronology
1.6Natural reciprocals
1.7Autobenefactive reflexive verbs
1.8Middle-voice markers licenced by prefixation
1.9In conclusion
Chapter 2.Metonymy and antimetonymy
2.1The natural reflexive and metonymy
2.2Extended metonymy
2.3Metonymic reflexives and antipassives
2.4Antimetonymic middles in Polish and elsewhere
2.5Antimetonymic middles and antipassives
2.6In conclusion
Chapter 3.Antipassive middles
3.1Introduction
3.2Definition
3.3Antipassives, deobjectives and deaccusatives
3.4Deobjectives 1: The behaviour-characterizing use
3.5Deobjectives 2: The activity subtype
3.6Diachrony: The rise of deobjectives
3.7Deaccusatives
3.7.1The locative subtype
3.7.2The instrumental subtype
3.8The functional features of the deaccusative type
3.9Diachrony: Deobjectives and deaccusatives
3.10In conclusion
Chapter 4.The permissive middle
4.1The notion of permissive middle
4.2The rise of the permissive middle
4.3Old Lithuanian
4.4Latvian
4.5Two kinds of permissive middles
4.6Syntactic interpretation
4.7Autopermissive complement-taking verbs
4.8Lexical permissives
4.9The permissive middle in Slavonic
4.10Permissives and curatives
4.11Broader outlook
Chapter 5.The anticausative
5.1On the notion of anticausative
5.2Argument structure
5.3Surface-impact verbs
5.4Surface-impact verbs and their anticausative derivatives
5.5So-called converse reflexives
5.6Emotive predicates
5.7‘Reflection’ verbs
5.8Phasal anticausatives
5.9The status of converse reflexives
5.10Unpaired surface-impact anticausatives
5.11Surface-impact verbs elsewhere in grammar
5.12In conclusion
Chapter 6.Facilitatives
6.1The notion of facilitatives
6.2The classification of facilitatives
6.3Adverbial modifiers
6.4The expression of the agent and its syntactic status
6.5Facilitatives from intransitives
6.6Impersonal transitive facilitatives
6.7Imperfective and perfective extensions
Chapter 7.Further extensions from the facilitative middle
7.1Introduction
7.2The naturally non-volitional type
7.3The achievement type
7.4Non-volitional middles from one-place predicates
7.5The desiderative extension
7.6In conclusion
Chapter 8.The coargumental middle
8.1Logophoric middles or coargumental middles
8.2Permissive verbs
8.3Speech-act verbs and verbs of belief
8.4Between speech act verbs and verbs of intention
8.5Desiderative verbs
8.6In conclusion
Chapter 9.In conclusion
Name index
Language index
Subject index
