Impersonal constructions : a cross-linguistic perspective / edited by Andrej Malchukov, Anna Siewierska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malʹchukov, A. L. (Andreĭ Lʹvovich)

Siewierska, Anna, 1955-2011

EBSCOhost.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 124.

Studies in language companion series ; v. 124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Subjectless constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 641 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Defining impersonal constructions as those lacking a referential subject, linguists from Europe, Asia, and North America explore various aspects of them both in individual languages and across languages. Care was taken that the structural and genealogical diversity across languages in the impersonal domain is represented. They cover typological and theoretical aspects, diachronic studies, and case studies of cross-linguistic variation. Among the topics are a semantic map approach to a typology of impersonal constructions, impersonal constructs and accusative subjects in late Latin, the case of meteorological predication in Afroasiatic, a diachronic study of the impersonal passive in Ainu, and impersonal constructions in some Oceanic languages. Some of the 20 studies were selected from a Societas Linguistica Europea 41 workshop in Forli during September 2008, and the rest were specially invited for the volume. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction / Andrej Malchukov and Anna Siewierska.

Part I. Impersonal constructions. Towards a typology of impersonal constructions: A semantic map approach / Andrej Malchukov and Akio Ogawa ; Overlap and complementarity in reference impersonals: Man-constructions vs. third person plural-impersonals in the languages of Europe / Anna Siewierska ; Verbs of motion: Impersonal passivization between unaccusativity and unergativity / Werner Abraham ; On the distribution of subject properties in formulaic presentationals of Germanic and Romance: A diachronic-typological approach / Volker Gast and Florian Haas.

Part II. Impersonal constructions. Impersonal constructions and accusative subjects in Late Latin / Michela Cennamo ; From passive to impersonal: A case study from Italian and its implications / Anna Giacalone Ramat and Andrea Sansò ; Passive to anticausative through impersonalization: The case of Vedic and Indo-European / Leonid Kulikov.

Part III. Cross-linguistic variation in Impersonal constructions. The Maa (Eastern Nilotic) Impersonal construction / Doris L. Payne ; Impersonal constructions in Jóola-Banjal / Alain Christian Bassène and Denis Creissels ; Impersonal configurations and theticity: The case of meteorological predications in Afroasiatic / Amina Mettouchi and Mauro Tosco ; Revisiting impersonal constructions in Modern Hebrew: Discourse-based perspectives / Ruth Berman ; The elephant in the room: The impersonal -ne/-te construction in Polish / Anna Kibort ; Meteorological verbs in Uralic languages

are there any impersonal structures to be found / Merja Salo ; Impersonal constructions in Ket / Edward J. Vajda, Andrey Nefedov and Andrej Malchukov ; Impersonal verbs in Central Alaskan Yupik (Eskimoan) / Osahito Miyaoka ; Impersonals in Innu / Lynn Drapeau ; A diachronic study of the impersonal passive in Ainu / Anna Bugaeva ; Referential impersonal constructions in Mandarin / Yi Yan and Anna Siewierska ; Impersonal constructions in some Oceanic languages / Claire Moyse-Faurie ; Impersonal constructions in Umpithamu and the Lamalamic languages / Jean-Christophe Verstraete.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789027287168

9027287163

Publisher Number:

99966610779

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