03269nam 2200589 a 450 991045776540332120200520144314.01-283-31278-6978661331278590-272-7656-0(CKB)2550000000050010(EBL)784365(OCoLC)756484667(SSID)ssj0000827536(PQKBManifestationID)11482443(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000827536(PQKBWorkID)10829802(PQKB)11447563(MiAaPQ)EBC784365(Au-PeEL)EBL784365(CaPaEBR)ebr10509527(EXLCZ)99255000000005001019930914d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVoice[electronic resource] form and function /edited by Barbara Fox, Paul J. HopperAmsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.19941 online resource (389 p.)Typological studies in language,0167-7373 ;v. 27Description based upon print version of record.1-55619-418-8 90-272-2915-5 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Active voice and middle diathesis : a cross-linguistic perspective / Manuel Arce-Arenales, Melissa Axelrod, and Barbara A. Fox -- Voice, aspect, and Aktionsart : middle and passive in ancient Greek / Egbert Bakker -- A functional typology of antipassives / Ann Cooreman -- Voice : beyond control and affectedness / William Croft -- The rise of the Engish get-passive / T. Givón and Lynne Yang -- Passive participles across languages / Martin Haspelmath -- Middle voice, transitivity, and the elaboration of events / Suzanne Kemmer -- On "middle voice" verbs in Mandarin / Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thmpson -- The implications of ergativity for a Philippine voice system / Marianne Mithun -- A tale of two passives in Irish / Michael Noonan -- The Tupi-Guarani inverse / Doris Payne -- Passives and alternatives in children's narratives in English, Spanish, German, and Turkish / Dan I. Slobin.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 oTypological studies in language ;v. 27.Grammar, Comparative and generalVoiceElectronic books.Grammar, Comparative and generalVoice.415Fox Barbara A174052Hopper Paul J158233MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457765403321Voice2288450UNINA