Fernando Zúñiga, Seppo Kittilä

Grammatical Voice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first ever textbook devoted to the cross-linguistic study of voice, covering various topics and discussing data from numerous languages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9781107159242
• ISBN-10: 1107159245
• Artikelnr.: 54025672

Autorenporträt

Fernando Zúñiga is Professor of Linguistics at the Universität Bern, Switzerland. His research focusses on the qualitative typology of voice and alignment, as well as on benefaction and wordhood issues. He has co-edited numerous books including Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony (2018) with Sonia Cristofaro.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Changing semantic valency: causatives, applicatives, and related constructions
3. Changing syntactic valency: passives, antipassives, and related constructions
4. In search of balance: agent and patient voices
5. The affected subject: reflexives, reciprocals, and middles
6. Covert diatheses: uncoded alternations
7. The fringes of voice
8. Diachronic aspects of voice
9. Revisiting voice theory.