The middle voice in Baltic /

The middle voice in Baltic /

"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...

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Main Author: Holvoet, Axel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020.
Series:Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Baltic languages > Voice.
Baltic language > Verb.
Baltic languages > Syntax.
Baltic lanugage > Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Middle voice.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • The Middle Voice in Baltic
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgement
  • List of grammatical abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Reflexives and middles
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Reflexive and middle
  • 1.3 Explaining split reflexivity and reciprocity
  • 1.4 Syntax and semantics
  • 1.5 Chronology
  • 1.6 Natural reciprocals
  • 1.7 Autobenefactive reflexive verbs
  • 1.8 Middle-voice markers licenced by prefixation
  • 1.9 In conclusion
  • Chapter 2. Metonymy and antimetonymy
  • 2.1 The natural reflexive and metonymy
  • 2.2 Extended metonymy
  • 2.3 Metonymic reflexives and antipassives
  • 2.4 Antimetonymic middles in Polish and elsewhere
  • 2.5 Antimetonymic middles and antipassives
  • 2.6 In conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Antipassive middles
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Definition
  • 3.3 Antipassives, deobjectives and deaccusatives
  • 3.4 Deobjectives 1: The behaviour-characterizing use
  • 3.5 Deobjectives 2: The activity subtype
  • 3.6 Diachrony: The rise of deobjectives
  • 3.7 Deaccusatives
  • 3.7.1 The locative subtype
  • 3.7.2 The instrumental subtype
  • 3.8 The functional features of the deaccusative type
  • 3.9 Diachrony: Deobjectives and deaccusatives
  • 3.10 In conclusion
  • Chapter 4. The permissive middle
  • 4.1 The notion of permissive middle
  • 4.2 The rise of the permissive middle
  • 4.3 Old Lithuanian
  • 4.4 Latvian
  • 4.5 Two kinds of permissive middles
  • 4.6 Syntactic interpretation
  • 4.7 Autopermissive complement-taking verbs
  • 4.8 Lexical permissives
  • 4.9 The permissive middle in Slavonic
  • 4.10 Permissives and curatives
  • 4.11 Broader outlook
  • Chapter 5. The anticausative
  • 5.1 On the notion of anticausative
  • 5.2 Argument structure
  • 5.3 Surface-impact verbs
  • 5.4 Surface-impact verbs and their anticausative derivatives
  • 5.5 So-called converse reflexives
  • 5.6 Emotive predicates
  • 5.7 'Reflection' verbs
  • 5.8 Phasal anticausatives
  • 5.9 The status of converse reflexives
  • 5.10 Unpaired surface-impact anticausatives
  • 5.11 Surface-impact verbs elsewhere in grammar
  • 5.12 In conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Facilitatives
  • 6.1 The notion of facilitatives
  • 6.2 The classification of facilitatives
  • 6.3 Adverbial modifiers
  • 6.4 The expression of the agent and its syntactic status
  • 6.5 Facilitatives from intransitives
  • 6.6 Impersonal transitive facilitatives
  • 6.7 Imperfective and perfective extensions
  • 6.8 In conclusion
  • Chapter 7. Further extensions from the facilitative middle
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 The naturally non-volitional type
  • 7.3 The achievement type
  • 7.4 Non-volitional middles from one-place predicates
  • 7.5 The desiderative extension
  • 7.6 In conclusion
  • Chapter 8. The coargumental middle
  • 8.1 Logophoric middles or coargumental middles
  • 8.2 Permissive verbs
  • 8.3 Speech-act verbs and verbs of belief
  • 8.4 Between speech act verbs and verbs of intention

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