Voice and argument structure in Baltic /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] |
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| Description: | 402 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic (VARGReB), 2352-0159 ; volume 2 Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic ; v. 2. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10357300 |
| Summary: | The second volume in the VARGReB series deals with voice in the wider sense, encompassing both alternations that preserve semantic valency, with passives as the most typical instance, and valency-changing devices such as the causative. Regarding the former, special attention is given to event-structural conditions on passivization, non-canonical passives, and the relation between passives and (active) impersonals. Papers dealing with causatives focus on valency patterns and argument marking in canonical as well as extended uses of causative morphology. Other articles consider converse constructions and the argument structure of middles, which seem to hold a position between voice in the narrow sense and valency-changing operations. An introductory article provides background information on the repertoire of voice alternations in Baltic from a cross-linguistic perspective. Representing different approaches and methods, the contributions to this volume offer fine-grained analyses of data from contemporary Latvian and Lithuanian. |
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| Physical Description: | 402 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027259103 9027259100 9789027267955 |
| ISSN: | 2352-0159 ; |
