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1 online resource. |
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Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic,
2352-0159 ;
volume 2
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Valency, argument realization and grammatical relations in Baltic ; v. 2.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Voice in Baltic: An overview; 1. Introduction; 2. Passive constructions in Lithuanian and Latvian ; 3. Causativization ; 4. From anti-causative to middle voice and other uses of the reflexive marker ; 5. Perspectives for future research; Abbreviations ; Sources; References; Part I. Causatives; Lithuanian morphological causatives: A corpus-based study; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Aim of the study and some definitions ; 1.2 Previous research on Lithuanian causatives ; 1.3 The database. |
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1.4 Structure of the article 2. Morphological causatives in Lithuanian: general overview ; 2.1 Morphology of causativization ; 2.2 Brief historical background ; 2.3 Causative verbs in relation to their bases: syntactic aspects ; 2.4 Causative verbs in relation to their bases: semantic aspects ; 3. Measuring the productivity of Lithuanian morphological causatives ; 4. Argument structure of causatives from transitive verbs ; 4.1 Causatives from ingestive verbs ; 4.2 Causatives from non-ingestive transitive verbs ; 4.3 Semantic developments in curative verbs ; 5. Conclusions ; Abbreviations. |
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2. Polyfunctionality of causative markers 3. A few notes on formal markers ; 4. Types of extended meanings ; 5. Causee backgrounding with verbs of light and sound emission ; 6. Dilution of the causative element: ground-figure relationship ; 7. Ambient verbs ; 8. Pain and emotion verbs ; 9. Causativization of transitives: curatives ; 10. Concluding remarks ; Abbreviations ; Bibliography ; Part II. Reflexives and middle voice; Middle voice reflexives and argument structure in Baltic; 1. Introduction; 2. Between anticausatives and passives; 3. Three domains of the middle; 4. The third domain. |
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5. Questions of argument structure in middle voice constructions6. Lexicon or grammar?; 7. A split category; 8. Inflection or derivation; 9. Voice again; Abbreviations; References; Converse relations with the reflexive marker in Lithuanian and Polish: Between grammar and lexicon; 1. Introduction ; 2. On converses in general and RM-converses in particular ; 2.1 On converse relations and their coding ; 2.2 RM-converses against symmetrical and reciprocal predicates ; 2.3 RM-converses against anticausatives, reflexive passives and impersonals ; 2.5 Operative rules for RM-converses. |
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The present article discusses the nature of the Latvian passive and, more specifically, the impersonal passive. It is argued that Latvian has indeed an impersonal passive that shows no signs of turning into an active impersonal, a development that has occurred in the history of Polish and could be an ongoing process in contemporary Lithuanian. Several lexical restrictions on the derivation of the Latvian constructions under discussion shows that they are indeed impersonal passives rather than active impersonals. Conspicuously absent, however, is a ban on the passivization of unaccusatives, as. |
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| Subject |
Baltic languages -- Voice.
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Baltic languages. |
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Voice. |
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Baltic languages -- Syntax.
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Baltic languages -- Syntax. |
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Baltic languages -- Verb phrase.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb phrase. |
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Baltic languages -- Grammaticalization.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Holvoet, Axel, editor.
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Nau, Nicole, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Voice and argument structure in Baltic Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015] 9789027259103 (DLC) 2015026591 |
| ISBN |
9789027267955 (pdf) |
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9027267952 (pdf) |
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9789027259103 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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