Voice and argument structure in Baltic

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Voice and argument structure in Baltic
Editors:
  • Holvoet, Axel, redagavimas [edt]
  • Nau, Nicole, redagavimas [edt]
Publication Data:
Amsterdam ; John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.
Pages:
402 p
Series:
Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic; vol. 2
Notes:
Bibliografija prie straipsnių ir rodyklės.
Contents:
Preface — Voice in Baltic: an overview / Nicole Nau, Axel Holvoet — Lithuanian morphological causatives: a corpus-based study / Peter Arkadiev, Jurgis Pakerys — Morphological causatives in contemporary Latvian / Nicole Nau — Extended uses of morphological causatives in Latvian / Axel Holvoet — Middle voice reflexives and argument structure in Baltic / Axel Holvoet, Marta Grzybowska, Agnieszka Rembiałkowska — Converse relations with the reflexive marker in Lithuanian and Polish: between grammar and lexicon / Björn Wiemer, Marta Grzybowska — Passivization and argument structure in Lithuanian / Cori Anderson — Solving the puzzle of the Lithuanian passive / Birutė Spraunienė, Auksė Razanovaitė, Erika Jasionytė — Latvian passives – personal, impersonal and evidential / Axel Holvoet — Language index — Name index — Subject index.
Reviews:
Recenzija leidinyje Baltic linguistics. 2016, 7, p. 216-225
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe 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.

ISBN:
9789027259103; 9789027267955 (elektroninis)
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