Passivization And Typology: Form And Function: 68 - Rilegato

 
9789027229809: Passivization And Typology: Form And Function: 68
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ISBN 10: 9027229805 ISBN 13: 9789027229809
Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 2006

Sinossi

Is the passive a unified universal phenomenon? The claim derived from this volume is that the passive, if not universal, has become unified according to function. Language as a means of communication needs the passive, or passive-like constructions, and sooner or later develops them based on other voices (impersonal active, middle, reflexive), specific semantic meanings such as adversativity, or tense-aspect categories (stative,perfect, preterit). Certain contributors review the passives in various languages and language groups, including languages rarely discussed. Another group of contributors takes a novel theoretical approach toward passivization within a broad typological perspective. Among the languages discussed are Vedic, Irish, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Lithuanian, Mordvin, and Nganasan, next to almost all European languages. Various theoretical frameworks such as Optimality Theory, Modern Structuralist Approaches, Role and Reference Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, Distributed Morphology, and Case Grammar have been applied by the different authors.

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Editore
John Benjamins Pub Co
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
9027229805
ISBN 13 
9789027229809
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
553
Redattore
Abraham Werner, Leisio Larisa
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