The middle voice in Baltic / Axel Holvoet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holvoet, Axel, author.

Series:

Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic ; Volume 5.

Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baltic languages--Voice.

Baltic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"Presentis a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive origin. Though the emphasis is on Baltic, ample attention is given to other languages as well, especially to Slavonic. The book offers many new insights into questions of syntactic and semantic interpretation, correct demarcation and diachronic explanation of middle-voice grams. The relationship between reflexive and middle, the workings of metonymy, changes in syntactic structure and lexical input as factors determining diachronic shifts within the middle-voice domain and transitions from one middle-voice gram to another - these are among the topics discussed in the book, which, beyond its relevance to Baltic and Slavonic scholarship, is also a contribution to the typology of the middle voice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgement

List of grammatical abbreviations

Preface

Chapter 1. Reflexives and middles

Chapter 2. Metonymy and antimetonymy

Chapter 3. Antipassive middles

Chapter 4. The permissive middle

Chapter 5. The anticausative

Chapter 6. Facilitatives

Chapter 7. Further extensions from the facilitative middle

Chapter 8. The coargumental middle

Chapter 9. In conclusion

Bibliography

Name index

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027261083

9027261083