Overview

This volume offers the research results on broadly defined topics centering around the voice system. With ample data from diverse language families and language types, the papers prepared originally by the leading scholars in linguistic typology offer new insights into topics such as passives and ergativity, passives and the focus system, voice and inverse marking, antipassives, semantics and functions of passives/antipassives. No construction type has ever played as significant a role as the passive construction in the development of linguistic theory in the recent history of grammatical studies. While the earlier role of passives was to motivate the transformational framework, passives still continue to play a central role in grammatical investigations even after some significant shifts have taken place in linguistic research. Especially, in the area of linguistic universals research and typological studies, passives provide intriguing data and have been a target of extensive inquiry.

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Author:   Masayoshi Shibatani
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   16
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   1.415kg
ISBN:  

9789027228895

ISBN 10:   9027228892
Pages:   706
Publication Date:   01 January 1988
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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