Grammatical voice / Fernando Zúñiga, Seppo Kittilä.
Zúñiga, Fernando| Call Number | 415 |
| Author | Zúñiga, Fernando, author. |
| Title | Grammatical voice / Fernando Zúñiga, Seppo Kittilä. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xviii, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge textbooks in linguistics |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2019). |
| Contents | Changing semantic valency: causatives, applicatives, and related constructions -- Changing syntactic valency: passives, antipassives, and related constructions -- In search of balance: agent and patient voices -- The affected subject: reflexives, reciprocals, and middles -- Covert diatheses: uncoded alternations -- The fringes of voice -- Diachronic aspects of voice -- Revisiting voice theory. |
| Summary | The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from over 200 languages, Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä illustrate the semantic, morphological, and syntactic variation of voice across languages from a range of families and regions. They approach the topic from a broad and explicit perspective, and discuss a variety of topics that are not always regarded as voice, in order to make a clear and useful conceptual delimitation. Clearly organized and accessibly written, the book will be welcomed by students and scholars of linguistics, especially those interested in how grammatical categories work. |
| Added Author | Kittilä, Seppo, author. |
| Subject | Grammar, Comparative and general Grammatical categories. Grammar, Comparative and general Voice. |
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| Summary | The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from over 200 languages, Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä illustrate the semantic, morphological, and syntactic variation of voice across languages from a range of families and regions. They approach the topic from a broad and explicit perspective, and discuss a variety of topics that are not always regarded as voice, in order to make a clear and useful conceptual delimitation. Clearly organized and accessibly written, the book will be welcomed by students and scholars of linguistics, especially those interested in how grammatical categories work. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2019). |
| Contents | Changing semantic valency: causatives, applicatives, and related constructions -- Changing syntactic valency: passives, antipassives, and related constructions -- In search of balance: agent and patient voices -- The affected subject: reflexives, reciprocals, and middles -- Covert diatheses: uncoded alternations -- The fringes of voice -- Diachronic aspects of voice -- Revisiting voice theory. |
| Subject | Grammar, Comparative and general Grammatical categories. Grammar, Comparative and general Voice. |
| Multimedia |