Middle voice in modern Greek : meaning and function of an inflectional category / Linda Joyce Manney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manney, Linda Joyce.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 48.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek language, Modern--Middle voice.

Greek language, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types, which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts, middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to demonstrate more clearly the semantic distinctions and pragmatic functions encoded by inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Major semantic groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to varying degrees.

Contents:

MIDDLE VOICE IN MODERN GREEK

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Defining the problem

Chapter 2. Prolegomena to a study of Modern Greek middle voice

Chapter 3. Experiencer subject structures

Chapter 4. Agent subject structures

Chapter 5. Spontaneous change of state, stative, and passive structures

Chapter 6. Reflexive Structures

Appendix A: 94 Middle Verbs: Psycho-Emotive Response

Appendix B: 146 Middle Verbs: Spontaneous Change / Change of State / State

References

Author Index

Subject Index

STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES (SLCS).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162978

9781282162976

1282162977

9789027298744

9027298742

OCLC:

70767206