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1 online resource. |
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Studies in language companion series (SLCS),
0165-7763 ;
Volume 179
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 179.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Passive Constructions in Lithuanian; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Editors' foreword; A short academic biography of Emma Geniušienė; Editorial decisions taken while preparing the present volume for publication ; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I. Passive constructions in Lithuanian; 1. Introduction; 2. Some aspects of the theory and methods of studying the passive voice; 2.1 The problem of the passive voice in Lithuanian linguistics ; 2.1.1 The passive voice in earlier Lithuanian linguistics ; 2.1.2 The passive voice in contemporary Lithuanian linguistics. |
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2.2 Some issues of the theory of the passive 2.2.1 The definition of the passive voice ; 2.2.2 The description of the passive alternation ; 2.2.3 Verb valency and the passive alternation ; 2.2.4 A structural classification of sentences ; 2.2.5 The problem of the synonymy of the active and the passive ; 2.2.6 A functional classification of sentences ; 2.2.7 The passive and the principles of textual cohesion ; 2.3 Research methods for the present work ; 2.3.1 The collection of the evidence for the present research ; 2.3.2 The methodological principles for the analysis of the evidence. |
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3. The passive alternation3.1 Modification of the predicate verb ; 3.1.1 The category of mood in the active and the passive ; 3.1.2 The categories of person and number in the active and the passive ; 3.1.3 The category of tense in the active and the passive ; 3.1.3.1 The semantic correspondences between active and passive tensed forms ; 3.1.3.2 The stative meaning of passive forms ; 3.1.3.3 The polysemy of the passive forms with the past passive participle ; 3.1.4 Formal vs semantic correspondences in the passive alternation ; 3.1.5 The passivisation of complex predicates. |
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3.2 Alternative realisations of the participants 3.2.1 Alternative realisations of the agent ; 3.2.1.1 Prototypical agents ; 3.2.1.2 Instruments or means ; 3.2.1.3 Metonymic agents ; 3.2.1.4 Null indefinite personal agents ; 3.2.2 Alternative realisations of the patient ; 3.2.2.1 Patients with simple verbal predicates ; 3.2.2.2 Patients with complex verbal predicates ; 3.2.3 Subject-predicate agreement in the passive ; 3.3 The syntactic rules of the passive alternation ; 3.3.1 The passive alternation involving an active construction with a simple predicate. |
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3.3.2 The passive alternation involving an active construction with a complex predicate 3.3.3 A structural classification of passive sentences ; 3.4 Restrictions on the passive alternation ; 3.4.1 Restrictions on the passive due to the properties of the verb ; 3.4.2 Restrictions on the passive due to the properties of the agent ; 4. The use of the passive; 4.1 The use of actional and stative passives ; 4.1.1 The incorporation of actional passives in a chain of predicates ; 4.1.2 The incorporation of stative passives in a chain of predicates. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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This volume is composed of two parts Part 1 is a reprint of her Ph. D. thesis, "Passive constructions in Lithuanian" written in the original Russian; Part 2 are a variety of reprinted articles which were originally written in English and Russian. |
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Geni͡ushene, Ė. Sh. (Ėmma Shirii͡azdanovna) -- Translations into English.
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Geni͡ushene, Ė. Sh. (Ėmma Shirii͡azdanovna) |
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Lithuanian language -- Grammatical categories.
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Lithuanian language. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammatical categories. |
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Lithuanian language -- Passive voice.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Passive voice. |
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Lithuanian language -- Sentence.
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Electronic books.
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Kibort, Anna, editor.
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Maskaliūnienė, Nijolė, editor.
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Ratkus, Arturas, translator.
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Passivnye konstrukt͡sii v litovskom i͡azyke. English
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Пассивные конструкции в литовском языке. English |
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Print version: Geni͡ushene, Ė. Sh. (Ėmma Shirii͡azdanovna) author. Passive constructions in Lithuanian. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016] 9789027259448 (DLC) 2016036486 |
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9789027266194 (pdf) |
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9027266190 (pdf) |
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9789027259448 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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