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The volume Passives Cross-Linguistically provides analyses of passive constructions across different languages and populations from the interface perspectives between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. In addition to the theoretical contributions, some experimental works are presented, which explore passives from psycholinguistic perspectives.

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Author:   Kleanthes K. Grohmann ,  Akemi Matsuya ,  Eva-Maria Remberger
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9789004428232

ISBN 10:   9004428232
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   04 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Akemi Matsuya and Kleanthes K. Grohmann 1 Long-Distance Passives by Structure Removal Gereon Muller 2 On Passive and Perfect Participles Peter Hallman 3 On Deontic Passives Eva-Maria Remberger 4 Indirect Object Want-Passives in Southern Italy Adam Ledgeway 5 Unexpected Passive Structures from Prepositional Verbs in Catalan Isabel Crespi 6 Two Types of Passive? Voice Morphology and Low Passives in Vedic Sanskrit and Ancient Greek Laura Grestenberger 7 Non-active Voices in South Asian Languages Pritha Chandra, Gurmeet Kaur and Anindita Sahoo 8 A More Articulated Approach to Causativity Alternation Mohamed Naji 9 Semantic and Pragmatic Implications of Passives Akemi Matsuya 10 The Source of Passive Sentence Difficulty: Task Effects and Predicate Semantics, Not Argument Order Caterina L. Paolazzi, Nino Grillo and Andrea Santi 11 Synthetic Passives in Early and Impaired Grammar: The View from Greek Reflexive Verbs Arhonto Terzi 12 The Mirage of Impaired Passives and the Locus Preservation Hypothesis Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Maria Kambanaros and Evelina Leivada Index

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Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Ph.D. (2000), University of Maryland at College Park, is Professor of Biolinguistics at the University of Cyprus and the Director of the CAT Lab. He has published widely and is founding editor of the open-access journal Biolinguistics. Akemi Matsuya, Ph.D. (2000), University of Maryland at College Park, is Professor of Linguistics at Takachiho University. She has publications in formal and applied linguistics and is one of the editors of Linguistic Journal. Eva-Maria Remberger, Ph.D. (2003), Free University Berlin, is Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Vienna in Austria. Her research and publications concern grammar theoretical questions as they arise from Romance data in a comparative synchronic and diachronic view.

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