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9789027229168: Voice: Form and Function
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ISBN 10 : 9027229163 ISBN 13 : 9789027229168
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1994

Synopsis

The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more exotic languages have raised still further questions. What discourse functions and diachronic events unite 'voice' as a recognizable phenomenon across languages? How are they typically grammaticalized? What stages do children go through in learning them? How does 'voice' link up with ergativity and with other categories and constructions such as the Inverse and the Antipassive? The authors in this volume have different perspectives on these problems: they discuss voice, e.g., from a typological-universal view, in relation to language acquisition and to ergativity, and from diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The volume's central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more exotic languages have raised still further questions. What discourse functions and diachronic events unite 'voice' as a recognizable phenomenon across languages? How are they typically grammaticalized? What stages do children go through in learning them? How does 'voice' link up with ergativity and with other categories and constructions such as the Inverse and the Antipassive? The authors in this volume have different perspectives on these problems: they discuss voice, e.g., from a typological-universal view, in relation to language acquisition and to ergativity, and from diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027229163
ISBN 13 
9789027229168
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
389
Éditeur
Fox Barbara A., Hopper Paul J.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1556194196 ISBN 13 :  9781556194191
Editeur : John Benjamins Pub Co, 1994
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