Voice: Form and FunctionBarbara A. Fox, Paul J. Hopper 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 other categories and constructions such as the Inverse and the Antipassive? The authors in this volume have different perspectives on these problems: they discuss voice, e.g., from a typological-universal view, in relation to language acquisition and to ergativity, and from diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives. |
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A CrossLinguistic Perspective | 1 |
Middle and Passive in Ancient Greek | 23 |
A Functional Typology of Antipassives | 49 |
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3rd persons absolutive active affected affectedness Aktionsart antipassive antipassive construction aorist arguments aspect BE-passive body action causal causative characterization clitic cognitive conceptual construal construed cross-linguistic detransitivized direct object discourse discussion distinction Dyirbal enclitic English entity ergative event view event-type example expressed function GET-passive Givón grammar Greek guages Guajajara Guugu Yimidhirr Haiman Hopper and Thompson identifiable impersonal passive inchoative inherent interpretation intransitive inverse involved Irish Jacaltec Kapampangan Kemmer Klaiman Koyukon lexical Linguistics marking Mayan languages meaning middle diathesis middle forms middle marker middle voice morphology nominal noun oblique occur one-form participant participles passive constructions passive participles patient predicate present pronoun prototypical reciprocal refer referential reflexive marker relation relative clause role Section semantic sentence Set 2 prefixes Shibatani situation types Spanish speaker stative structure suffix syntactic syntax tion tive topicality transitive clauses transitive verbs Turkish typological University unmarked Wayampi Yukulta