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Author Steinbach, Markus.

Title Middle voice : a comparative study in the syntax-semantics interface of German / Markus Steinbach.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 337 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 50
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 50.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and index.
Contents Middle Voice; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Middle constructions and middle voice; Chapter 3: Lexical and syntactic approaches to middle formation; Chapter 4: The syntax of transitive reflexive sentences; Chapter 5: The interpretation of reflexive pronouns in German; Chapter 6: Suppressed arguments and dative objects; Chapter 7: Middle constructions revisited; Chapter 8: Conclusion; References; Subject index; Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
Summary This book offers a completely new analysis of the syntax and semantics of transitive reflexive sentences in German, which is embedded in the major phenomenon of the middle voice in Indo-European languages. It integrates the interpretation of non-argument reflexives into a modified version of recent theories of binding. The ambiguity of the reflexive pronoun is derived at the interface between syntax and semantics and does not rely on additional lexical or syntactic rules of argument suppression and argument promotion. This shift towards the semantic interpretation of syntactic arguments enable.
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Subject German language -- Voice.
German language -- Voice.
German language.
German language -- Verb.
German language -- Verb.
German language -- Syntax.
German language -- Syntax.
German language -- Semantics.
German language -- Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Middle voice.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Middle voice.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Steinbach, Markus. Middle voice. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2002 (DLC) 2002016438
ISBN 9789027297556 (electronic book)
902729755X (electronic book)
9789027227713
9027227713
1588111946 (US hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027227713 (Eur.)